Puerto Rico's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that not guilty verdicts in criminal cases must be unanimous, AP reports.
Puerto Rico's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that not guilty verdicts in criminal cases must be unanimous,The U.S. territory has allowed a minimum of nine out of 12 jurors for not guilty verdicts for nearly seven decades.Subscribe for freeThe majority of judges in the court said in their decision that not guilty verdicts should require the same unanimity mandated for guilty verdicts.
The two dissenters countered by arguing that a defendant is presumed innocent until the state proves them guilty. One also accused his colleagues of distortion, per AP.The 5-2 decision is the result of a 2016 case that involved a Puerto Rican man accused of first-degree murder, and comes more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled thatLouisiana, Oregon and Puerto Rico had not required unanimity for convictions until the high court's ruling.
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