Louisiana may drop remnant of Jim Crow, former JP lawman sentenced, drowned child lived in deplorable conditions: Your morning briefing
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Stunning vote in the
State lawmakers, led by Sen. JP Morrell of
The law originated in the Jim Crow era, giving mostly white juries the ability to convict defendants for serious crimes over the objections of a few black jurors, who couldn't be entirely excluded because that would run afoul of the 14th and 15th amendments. It survived in a slightly altered form when lawmakers drafted the state's existing state constitution in the 1970s, allowing for guilty verdicts to stand with the votes of only 10 of 12 jurors.
After impassioned remarks by Morrell and others on Wednesday -- incidentally the 50th anniversary of Dr.
A year-long Advocate investigation published Sunday revealed that 10-2 jury verdicts continue to hit the state's black population disproportionately. Black defendants are 30 percent more likely than white defendants to be sent to prison over the objections of one or two members of the jury.
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The former No. 2 at the
Taffaro was accused of dodging the tax man by inflating his expenses at an off-shore services company he used to run with Normand, who hasn't been charged with any wrong-doing.
U.S. District Judge
The company, CTNN, acted as a kind of broker, supplying an oil services company called
At one point an
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Child drowned in deplorable conditions
The police in
They said the 4-year-old boy had been left unattended by his father, who was inside using drugs. The house had no running water, and it was strewn with garbage, rotting food and animal feces.
The boy's father, who has been booked with negligent homicide and second-degree cruelty to a juvenile, has pleaded guilty in the past to possession of methamphetamine and domestic abuse.
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