Unanimous Juries

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by: Abassos • December 14, 2010 • no comments

Just a reminder that you can find everything on the unanimous jury argument here. Including but not limited to a pair of unanimous jury memos ready for you to file, as well as all the briefs in Herrera (linked from Eugene Volokh's site.) Volokh's reply brief is a particularly good read. As Ryan Scott pointed out, it's a lovely example of concise and devastating argument.

Check out this crazy statistic from the Oregon Federal Public Defender's amicus brief:

The Oregon Department of Justice recently attempted to quantify non-unanimous jury verdicts, and while not definitive the summary indicated that of the 662 trial cases surveyed, juries were polled in the 63% of the cases and just over 65% of the polls were non-unanimous on at least one count.