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Vacate Louisiana's Non-Unanimous Jury Convictions

Apply Louisiana's ban on non-unanimous criminal verdicts retroactively. The state's last Jim Crow law was struck down in 2018, but more than a thousand Louisianans remain in prison on Jim Crow-era verdicts.

Supporting bill

LA HB219Provides relative to post-conviction relief or parole when a verdict is rendered by a non-unanimous jury (OR INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Introduced · updated 4 months ago

Louisiana HB219 allows for review and resentencing of sentences from non-unanimous jury convictions.

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