The supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down Burch v. louisiana: “[H]aving already departed from the strictly historical requirements of jury trial, it is inevitable that lines must be drawn somewhere if the substance of the jury trial right is to be preserved.”
Question: What was wrong with the old rule? The Constitution for the united States? Jury Nullification?
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Burch v. Louisiana, 441 U.S. 130 (1979).
Gerald Gunther, Constitutional Law, twelfth edition, (Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1991), 431(n5).
Burch v. Louisiana – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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