From Newsgroup: alt.tv.law-and-order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramos_v._Louisiana
The SCOTUS rules 6-3 that the COTUS requires unanimous jury decisions. "Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, joined in parts by justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh, which holds that the guarantee is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Clarence Thomas joined in the judgment only, arguing instead that it is incorporated by the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
"Justice Samuel Alito wrote the dissent joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Elena Kagan. Alito wrote that the Court should uphold the principle of stare decisis since both Oregon and Louisiana have used the ruling from Apodaca v. Oregon for more than forty years."
Oh yeah, stare decisis.
J. Gorsuch's opinion may be laying the framework for a later case that asks if a jury requires twelve members. Well, I can dream, can't I?
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