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Jim Crow-Era Law Allowing Split Verdicts Is On The Chopping Block In Louisiana

by Marc Hyden
Nov 6, 2018
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issues: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Pretrial, Sentencing
originally published in Huffington Post
From the Huffington Post:

Instead, Davis spent the next 15 years behind bars until he was exonerated with the assistance of Innocence Project New Orleans. And he’s just one of many. Louisiana currently ranks among the top 10 states in exonerations.

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