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← 387 SO2D 1180 - State v. Brown

State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1984
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hankerson v. North Carolina · Adams v. Texas · Burch v. State of Louisiana · Brown v. Louisiana · 371 So. 2d 746 - State v. Brown

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “Accordingly, in compliance with the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States, that conviction and sentence of defendant Brown are reversed and set aside, and the case is remanded to the district court for a new trial before a jury of six persons, with the jury to be instructed that the verdict should be unanimous.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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