Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder

• Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For criminal cases yes it has to be unanimous. They might have heard about civil cases sometimes allowing majority/supermajority vote verdicts (allowed in more than half the states).

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The current position of federal and state courts is that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require unanimous verdicts to convict a criminal defendant.

  RAMOS v. LOUISIANA (2020) extended the 6th amendments right to a conviction by unanimous verdict through the 14th Amendment.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To convict, but I thought a simple majority can acquit, and set the defendent free

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