CSPAN3 Ramos V. Louisiana Oral Argument On Unanimous Jury Verdicts July 13, 2024
Powells pivotal vote in the case. Indeed, that reasoning flouted precedent at the time and has since been relegated to nothing more than an isolated relic of an abandoned doctrine. The states only defense in support of the judgment below is that the sixth amendment does not require unanimity at all, that is hnot in state courts or federal court. This court should reject that argument. As the court has said many times over many decades, the sixth amendment requires a unanimous verdict to convict. In particular, what the court has said is the sixth amendment right to try by jury carries with it ...