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The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, holding that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, as incorporated against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, requires a unanimous jury verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense. The Court overruled its prior decisions in Apodaca v. Oregon and Johnson v. Louisiana that had allowed non-unanimous jury verdicts in state criminal trials. Justice Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court, concluding that the text

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Gregorio Uriburu

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