888 So. 2d 885 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “A criminal case in which the punishment may be capital shall be tried before a jury of twelve persons, all of whom must concur to render a verdict. A case in which the punishment is necessarily confinement at hard labor shall be tried before a jury of twelve persons, ten of whom must concur to render a verdict. A case in which the punishment may be confinement at hard labor or confinement without hard labor for more than six months shall be tried before a jury of six persons, all of whom must concur to render a verdict. [ [2] ] ... Except in capital cases, a defendant may knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a trial by jury. [Emphasis supplied.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 922 So. 2d 508 - State v. Jones

2. “[t]he tribunal before which the accused was tried was ... without jurisdiction in the premises, and, as to him and his case, [it] was as though it did not exist.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 922 So. 2d 508 - State v. Jones

3. “error, defect, irregularity, or variance”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 922 So. 2d 508 - State v. Jones