Fighting Jim Crow, Chapter 517

Thomas Ward Frampton, The Jim Crow Jury, 71 Vand. L. Rev. 1593 (2018), available at SSRN. Gabriel “Jack” Chin This article challenges the practice of non-unanimous criminal jury verdicts in Louisiana.  In a certain sense, the article was irrelevant, moot, by the time it saw print. This is not because, say, it was about an election that was already over, or made an argument that the courts had definitively rejected. Instead, the claim in this paper was so factually, legally and historically compelling that even in draft form it spurred concrete action; thanks in part to this paper, the policy it analyzed was both declared unconstitutional by a court, and repealed by the voters. The article carefully recounts the history of the substantial elimination of African Americans from juries in Louisiana after Reconstruction. African Americans were, of course, a major part of the population of most of the former Confederate states, and amounted to a majority in…

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