Legal Opinion
State v. Hankton
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 2, 2013No. 2012-KA-0375PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
11A less-than-unanimous jury convicted Telly Hankton of second degree murder of Darnell Stewart.1 By special pleading in the trial court, Mr. Hankton challenged the constitutionality of those provisions of La. Const, art. I, § 17(A) and La.C.Cr.P. art. 782 A, which allow for jury verdicts in certain specified cases upon the concurring vote of only ten of the twelve jurors.
Mr. Hankton specified two distinct grounds for the unconstitutionality of these provisions. One ground is his argument that the Sixth Amendment, incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment and applied…
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