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On May 28, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a challenge to Florida's use of six-person juries in felony convictions. This decision upholds a five-decade-old precedent that allows six states, including Florida, to use juries with fewer than 12 members in some criminal trials. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch strongly dissented, urging the court to reconsider the precedent and calling the original 1970 decision an 'embarrassing mistake.' Gorsuch emphasized the importance of 12-person juries in ensuring fair trials and lamented the court's inability to gather the four votes needed to hear the appeal. The case also touches upon interpretations of the Sixth Amendment.
SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch urged six states to require a 12-person jury. Gorsuch lamented that the court lacked the four votes needed to agree to hear an appeal on whether the Constitution bars juries with as few as six people from deciding felony cases https://t.co/zm2UTj5aKV https://t.co/uLJfQf2801
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on urged six states to cease using juries with fewer than 12 people in some criminal trials as the high court declined to revisit a five-decade-old precedent that has allowed them to do so @nateraymond https://t.co/zm2UTj4CVn https://t.co/nZAbhzW8NY
Justice Neil Gorsuch urged six states to have 12—person juries in criminal trials as the court declined to revisit the issue. Gorsuch lamented the court's inability to hear an appeal questioning if the Constitution allows six people juries in felony cases https://t.co/zm2UTj5aKV https://t.co/oKj0jGrrTs
