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Burch Vs. Louisiana

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 17, 1979

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  1. Duncan Vs. Louisiana US Supreme Court · May 20, 1968
  2. District of Columbia Vs. Clawans US Supreme Court · Apr 05, 1937
  3. United States Vs. Raines US Supreme Court · Feb 29, 1960
  4. Jenkins Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Jun 24, 1974
  5. Raley Vs. Ohio US Supreme Court · Jun 22, 1959
  6. Mazer Vs. Stein US Supreme Court · Mar 08, 1954
  7. Apodaca Vs. Oregon US Supreme Court · May 22, 1972
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  8. Destefano Vs. Woods US Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1968
  9. U.S. 130 (1979) U.S. Supreme Court Burch v. Louisiana
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  10. U.S. 130 (1979) Burch v. Louisiana
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  11. of the jury trial guarantee and justifies requiring verdicts rendered by such juries to be unanimous. Cf. Ballew v. Georgia
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  12. the court held that conviction by a nonunanimous six-person jury did not offend the Constitution. State v. Wrestle
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  13. was enough for a verdict as determined in Johnson v. Louisiana
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  14. of Rights of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, 3 La.L.Rev. 1, 56 n. 300 (1974). And our recent decision in Ballew v. Georgia
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  15. years has this Court had to consider the practices of the several States relating to jury size and unanimity. Duncan v. Louisiana
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  16. Two Terms later, in Williams v. Florida
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  17. to satisfy constitutional requirements, even though unanimity had been the rule at common law. Thus, in Apodaca v. Oregon
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  18. Last Term, in Ballew v. Georgia
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  19. a jury of less than six members passes constitutional scrutiny, a question that was explicitly reserved in Williams v. Florida
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  20. thus have held that the Constitution permits juries of less than 12 members, but that it requires at least 6. Ballew v. Georgia
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  21. William v. Florida
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  22. supra. And we have approved the use of certain nonunanimous verdicts in cases involving 12-person juries. Apodaca v. Oregon
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  23. Johnson v. Louisiana
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  24. Williams v. Florida
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  25. inevitable that lines must be drawn somewhere if the substance of the jury trial right is to be preserved. Cf. Scott v. Illinois
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  26. Baldwin v. New
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  27. Baldwin v. New
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  28. the line between those jury practices that are constitutionally permissible and those that are not. See Baldwin v. New
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  29. In Duncan v. Louisiana
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  30. of the provisions of Louisiana law allowing conviction by a nonunanimous six-member jury. See, e.g., Duke Power Co. v. Carolina
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  31. Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  32. U. S. 17 , 362 U. S. 21 (1960). And in Williams v. Florida
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  33. Supreme Court held that, under state law, it could consider petitioners' claim, and it disposed of that claim. State v. Wrestle
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  34. Inc., 360 So.2d 831, 837 (1978). The federal question therefore is properly raised in this Court. See New Jersey v. Portash
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  35. may be tried without a jury, and in Baldwin v. New
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  36. See Ballew v. Georgia
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  37. U. S. 356 (1972), was decided the same day as Apodaca v. Oregon
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  38. failure to satisfy the reasonable doubt standard. Unlike Apodaca, Johnson involved a trial held prior to Duncan v. Louisiana
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  39. U. S. 145 (1968), which the Court, in DeStefano v. Woods
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  40. MR. JUSTICE POWELL concurred in the judgment in Apodaca v. Oregon
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  41. than six persons would not satisfy the fair cross-section requirement of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. Ballew v. Georgia
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  42. Houchin v. State
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  43. Pierce v. State
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  44. Proc. 31(a). MR. JUSTICE STEVENS, concurring. Even though I have not changed the views I expressed in Marks v. United
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  45. Smith v. United
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  46. and Splawn v. California
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  47. General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western
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  48. U.S. Supreme Court Burch v. Louisiana
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  49. Cf. Ballew v. Georgia
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  50. the Constitution. State v. Wrestle
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