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Legal Citation: 406 U.S. 356 (1972)

Appellant
Frank Johnson

Appellee
State of Louisiana

Appellant's Claim
Louisiana's constitutional provisions, which allowed less-than-unanimous guilty verdicts in criminal cases, violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Richard A. Buckley

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Louise Korns

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, Byron R. White (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
22 May 1972

Decision
The reasonable doubt standard contained in the Due Process Clause of the...