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The jury in Ramos' first trial was divided 10-2, and he was sentenced to life in prison. At the time, that would have resulted in a mistrial in 48 other states outside Louisiana and Oregon.
His trial ended with a hung jury and a subsequent grand jury no-billed the case, so Taylor is cleared in the Ramos case. Witnesses have included Ramos’ mother, a witness of the shooting and ...
He charged police officer Christopher Taylor with murder over the shooting death of Michael Ramos, a black and Hispanic man. Taylor was tried twice, with both trials resulting in a mistrial and the most recent one due to a hung jury. Garza charged 21 officers with aggravated assault over actions during a May 2020 social justice protest, but he ...
A jury has been unable to reach a verdict in the murder trial of Austin police officer Christopher Taylor, who fatally shot Michael Ramos in 2020.
Ramos appealed the conviction on the issue around the non-unanimous jury factor, arguing that the law, established in 1898, was a Jim Crow law that allowed for racial discrimination within juries. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit upheld his sentence in a November 2017 opinion.
Majority verdicts are not allowed in civilian criminal cases in the United States. A hung jury results in a mistrial. The case may be retried (United States v. Perez, 1824). Louisiana, which was historically influenced by the French civil law system, and Oregon used to allow 10–2 majority verdicts. In the 2020 case Ramos v.
A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the murder trial of Austin police officer Christopher Taylor, who fatally shot Michael Ramos in 2020. Austin leaders react to mistrial of Austin police ...
A hung jury, and a declaration of a mistrial, would become a real possibility. The political contours are fairly clear if Trump is either convicted or acquitted.