Edwards v. Vannoy (U.S. Supreme Court. May 2021)
Juries, Major Cases, Recent SCOTUS Cases, Supreme Court Opinions
|In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that the unanimous verdict rule announced in Ramos v. Louisiana was not retroactive for inmates convicted on split verdicts. The Court also effectively overruled the “watershed exception” from Teague v. Lane that held that a new rule of criminal procedure can be applied retroactively if it is a “watershed” rule pertaining to “basic due process.”