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Re:Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous... by icelancer on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @02:02AM (#22932430)
Gorsuch is saying that the point of a non-unanimous jury was to advance racist policies, and that this was widely accepted to be true.
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Re:Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous... by simonh on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:17AM (#22932758)
In fact it was plainly stated by proponents of non-unanimous juries when they were introduced, as pointed out in the article.
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