State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “[I]n State v. Jones, 05-0226, p. 3 (La.2/22/06), 922 So.2d 508, 511 , [the supreme court] held that the error in trying a six-person jury offense in a 12-person jury forum no longer constitutes a non-waivable structural defect in the proceedings but “falls within the vast category of trial errors which are subject to hannless error analysis and which warrant reversal only where the defendant is actually prejudiced.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 161 So. 3d 701 - State v. Urena

2. “La.R.S. 14:40.2(B)(4). Notwithstanding any deference accorded to trial counsel's strategy, we submit that the case should have been tried before a jury of six, rather than twelve, veniremen. While there is no doubt that an error occurred with respect to the size of the selected jury in this case, our supreme court has held that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Miller