Professor Snowden Discusses Clancy Jury Outcome
Judge John D. Wessel Distinguished Professor of Law Will Snowden recently published a piece on the jury mistrial in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial for The Lens.
In his article, Prof. Snowden explains the importance of unanimous jury decisions when ensuring the constitutional right of due process.
"[H]oldout jurors enforce the safeguard of requiring unanimity," he says in the piece. "This exceptionally high threshold ensures that the government has irrefutably proven its case before stripping a citizen of their freedom."