How to Use nonunanimous in a Sentence

nonunanimous

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• This is not the first time Rosenblum has stood in the way of striking down nonunanimous jury verdicts in Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2021
• Oregon’s distinction as the last state with nonunanimous juries hasn’t sat well with lawmakers.
  — oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
• That is good news for people convicted by nonunanimous juries whose appeals are still pending.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 17 May 2021
• Oregon is the last state that allows nonunanimous verdicts in criminal cases.
  — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• In addition to the relevancy issue, Ledet wrote that Thomassie's guilty verdict was obtained by a nonunanimous vote of 10-2, and that some statements were inconsistent.
  — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Its three liberals were in the majority in nearly half of its nonunanimous decisions.
  — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• The Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of nonunanimous verdicts, and is expected to hand down a decision as early as this month.
  — Timothy Williams, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
• But hundreds convicted by nonunanimous juries remain in Oregon prisons because their cases and sentences were final at the time of the high court’s decision.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2021
• Oregon’s population is about 85 percent white, and most people convicted by nonunanimous juries there are white as well.
  — Timothy Williams, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
• One other state, Louisiana, had allowed nonunanimous juries until voters there abolished them in 2018.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2020
• In 2018, voters in Louisiana, the only other state that has allowed nonunanimous juries, rejected their system of split-verdict convictions.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2020
• Citing this history, the Supreme Court found nonunanimous verdicts unconstitutional in 2020.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• Hundreds of Oregonians remain in prison with nonunanimous jury convictions, having exhausted all other appeal options.
  — oregonlive, 18 May 2021
• Several Oregon lawmakers recently sponsored a resolution calling for a ballot measure to repeal an amendment to the state constitution allowing nonunanimous verdicts.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019

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