Sidebar - Guilty by a 10-2 Vote - Efficient or Unconstitutional? - Series - NYTimes.com
“Twelve Angry Men” might have been a much shorter movie had it been set in Oregon. Instead of letting Juror No. 8, the lone holdout played by Henry Fonda, methodically convince his fellow jurors that there was good reason to doubt the defendant’s guilt, an Oregon jury might have just voted and been done with it.
That’s because Oregon is one of only two states that does not require juries to reach unanimous verdicts in criminal cases. Like ...
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I find this shocking and as you read you will see that on lower misdemeanor convictions still require a unanimous vote. When one consider the Sixth Amendment this is a surprise and in one state's case has a double standard, unanimous and non unanimous rulings.