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Death penalty juror change creates 'game of chance' for resentencings, groups argue.
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Death penalty juror change creates 'game of chance' for resentencings, groups argue.
The ruling in New Hampshire came in response to a legal challenge by two of the largest teachers unions in the US.
A 2023 law that lowered the number of jurors needed to recommend the death penalty has resulted in a "quintessential game of chance" for inmates being resentenced because of changes in the state's death-penalty process and unconstitutionally "silences Black voices," groups are arguing in what could be a pivotal Florida Supreme Court case.
Kankakee County Circuit Judge Kathy Bradshaw-Elliott made the ruling last Friday following a hearing for Gulley’s motion to suppress the interviews Friday.
The lawsuit alleges that James is using the "State's power to regulate business fraud to stop nonprofit pregnancy centers."