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> Juries will generally be majority white meaning the opinion of the black jurors would be discounted often. How often do jurry opinions actually split purely
by CivBase 7y ago
> Juries will generally be majority white meaning the opinion of the black jurors would be discounted often.
How often do jurry opinions actually split purely along racial lines?
- bitcurious 7y agoI don’t know of any present day statistics, but it looks like it was a motivating factor in moving away from unanimous convictions, at least in the case of Louisiana. https://www.wwno.org/post/history-louisianas-non-unanimous-jury-rule https://www.wwno.org/post/history-louisianas-non-unanimous-j...