Law360: After Win, Those Fighting Divided Verdicts Eye Next Chapter

When the U.S. Supreme Court decided on April 20 to overrule a 40-year-old precedent and declare nonunanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases to be unconstitutional, it was a feast for many legal observers.

They focused on the multiple opinions penned by the justices, the different ways justices handled the thorny legal history of the issue and the implications for the court's approach to overruling precedent.

But for advocates in Louisiana and Oregon, the only two states to allow nonunanimous convictions in recent decades, the focus was on the impact the ruling could have on convicted people in their states.