Legal Opinion
State v. Bertrand
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 17, 2009No. 2008-KA-2215, 2008-KA-2311PublishedCited by 201 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TRAYLOR, Justice.
11 These consolidated matters arise from the defendants’ separate constitutional challenges to Article 782 of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure, a legislative enactment which enumerates the number of jurors who must concur to reach a verdict in a felony case in which the punishment is necessarily confinement at hard labor. The cases are before us on direct appeal pursuant to Article V, Section 5(D)(1) 1 of the Louisiana Constitution, as the district court judge declared in both cases that Article 782 violated the United *739States Constitution. After reviewing the…
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