Supreme Court clears cloud over criminal cases

Eunice attorney Jacque Pucheu said a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared a flood of criminal cases in Louisiana from felons convicted in non-unanimous verdicts. Speaking to the Eunice Rotary Club on Wednesday. Pucheu said up to 1,500 convicted felons in the state could have sought new trials due to divided jury verdicts. In Louisiana and Oregon, convictions in felony cases were possible even i...

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