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The Nittany Lions kicked off their year strong with a definitive victory in the season's first game.

Former congressman and GOP Senate candidate Doug Collins has registered to lobby on criminal justice issues.

The ruling could mean hundreds of cases will be retried or dropped By Kaylee Torney / InvestigateWest The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Friday that all people convicted by a split jury have the right to appeal those convictions, clearing the way for several hundred incarcerated people to have their cases retried. In a unanimous opinion

Hundreds of defendants in Oregon who were convicted of crimes by non-unanimous juries before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such jury verdicts have a right to a new trial,

Until recently, Oregon was the only state in the country, along with Louisiana, that allowed people to be convicted of a crime when at least one juror expressed doubt.

State justices extend right to around 300 convicted by nonunanimous juries but whose cases were final. U.S. ruling in 2020 applied to 500 whose cases were still in process or

A Friday opinion by the Oregon Supreme Court offers clarity for people convicted in trials where not everyone on the jury agreed the convicted person was guilty.

Hundreds of defendants in Oregon who were convicted of crimes by non-unanimous juries before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such jury verdicts have a right to a new trial, under a decision issued by the state's supreme court on Friday.

Until recently, Oregon was one of only two states that allowed people to be convicted by a non-unanimous jury verdict.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of defendants in Oregon who were convicted of crimes by non-unanimous juries before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such jury verdicts have a right to a new trial, under a decision issued by the state's supreme court on Friday.