Plaquemines Parish Court Judge Rules That Jim Crow Jury Client Will Receive a New Trial

Point a La Hache, La - PJI client Reginald Reddick was granted a new trial in Plaquemines Parish last month when a judge ruled that his original non-unanimous jury conviction was unconstitutional. This is the second Parish where judges have ruled that the Supreme Court ruling in Ramos v. Louisiana applies to people with final convictions. Mr. Reddick was originally convicted by a 10-2 jury, and has already spent more than 20 years in prison following his original unconstitutional conviction.

This is another case of state judges restoring justice to people who remain incarcerated as a result of non-unanimous juries (also known as Jim Crow juries), even when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to require Louisiana to apply its Ramos ruling to people with final convictions. “This is an important step towards overturning these racist and unconstitutional verdicts across the state, and provides hope for Mr. Reddick and the thousands of other Louisianans who have been impacted by Jim Crow Juries,” said PJI attorney Mr. Hardell Ward, who represented Mr. Reddick. “Now we continue our fight and work to undo the rest of these unconstitutional Jim Crow Jury verdicts, one by one.”

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