Oregon’s unusual Jury System

[uscsoldier]

Good write up on it, I've had this discussion several times with friends who don't believe me and have to go do their own research when I tell them how unusual Oregons system as.

Inside the gangland murder that gave Oregon its unusual jury system

For the TLDL crowd "Oregon juries for decades have been permitted to convict felony defendants — save for suspected murderers — with a 10-2 vote, a system that only one other state in the U.S., Louisiana, employs"

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[Member 5605]

So they changed the system to make it pass..

Sounds like the former majority democrats and the current republicans in the senate...