In response, a coalition of lawmakers has introduced insurance and legal reform ... jury verdicts that have driven insurers out of the market. “To put it in perspective: In 2021, in Louisiana ...

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries to ask for a ...

Persons imprisoned in Louisiana through unconstitutional split-jury verdicts before voters eliminated them will still not ...

Reform advocates say failure to ... Miller watched as the Supreme Court ruled split-jury verdicts unconstitutional, only to see Louisiana's top court say the decision would not apply retroactively ...

Louisiana outlawed nonunanimous jury ... Crow verdicts. Jason Williams established a civil rights division when he took over New Orleans’ district attorney’s office in 2021 on a reform platform.

Report highlights include: • Increase in “nuclear verdicts,” exorbitant jury awards typically ... (Source: 2024 Economic Benefits of Tort Reform) Louisiana’s Judicial Hellhole® status ...

and that allowing convictions with less than unanimous verdicts would be a less violent option than lynching. And so, for over a century Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury scheme was enshrined in ...

The bill would have added non-unanimous verdicts to a list of claims ... said to his colleagues. Louisiana adopted the practice of split jury convictions in 1898 during a constitutional convention ...