GUILTY LA - Trinece Fedison, 42, slain, stuffed in trash can, New Orleans, 26 Nov 2014

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Nearly two years after Trenice Fedison's body was found stabbed and stuffed head-first in a city garbage can, Fedison's teenage daughter still can't sleep, the victim's aunt testified Tuesday (July 12).

"The thoughts of her mother's death haunt her," said Terri Harris of Fedison's daughter...

Harris and three of Fedison's other relatives sat on a witness stand and spoke to Fedison's convicted killer, 43-year-old Evangelisto Ramos, just before Orleans Criminal District Judge Robin Pittman ordered him to serve a life sentence.

 

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Jury Verdicts in Spotlight on Supreme Court’s Opening Day

Sept. 25, 2019

"Courtroom dramas like “Twelve Angry Men” evoke the image of a jury struggling to unanimously decide a criminal defendant’s guilt.

But it only took 10 of 12 Louisiana jurors to convict Evangelisto Ramos of a murder he denies committing.

Now, Ramos wants the U.S. Supreme Court to strike the system that allowed that verdict. He is asking the justices, who will consider his case on the opening day of the high court’s 2019 term, to say once and for all that the Constitution requires unanimous criminal verdicts nationwide.

Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that allow split verdicts. Louisiana voters approved a ballot measure last year to stop them, but the measure applies to offenses committed starting this year, not retroactively. That means non-unanimous convictions are still possible there.

Defendants like Ramos want the Sixth Amendment’s jury unanimity right to be the next one fully “incorporated,” meaning it would apply in state trials, too, not just federal ones.

State officials warn that a ruling for Ramos could lead to toppling thousands of non-unanimous convictions. Ramos and his supporters cast those concerns as both overblown and misguided. They point to the discriminatory history of split verdict regimes and how they’re more likely to lead to convicting innocents....

Ramos faces life-without-parole for the murder of Trinece Fedison, whose dead body was found stabbed and stuffed in a New Orleans trash can in 2014. The case will be argued Oct. 7 and a decision is expected by late June....

The case is Ramos v. Louisiana, U.S., 18-5924, set for oral argument 10/7/19."

Jury Verdicts in Spotlight on Supreme Court’s Opening Day
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Ramos v. Louisiana, U.S., 18-5924

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Argument preview: Court to consider whether right to unanimous jury verdict applies to state criminal trials

September 30th, 2019

"...Evangelisto Ramos was convicted of second-degree murder for the sexual assault and stabbing death of Trinece Fedison, whose body was found in a trash can in New Orleans in 2014. Ramos insisted that he was innocent, even though his DNA was found on the trash can in which the victim’s body was discovered. Ramos admitted that he had had sex with Fedison, but he claimed that she had left his house after that and driven away with two other men.

Ten of the 12 jurors on Ramos’ jury voted to convict him. Ramos was sentenced to life in prison at hard labor, without the possibility of parole. A state intermediate appeals court upheld his sentence, rejecting his argument that the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution – which establishes the right to an “impartial jury” – requires a unanimous jury verdict. The Louisiana Supreme Court declined to weigh in, but the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case last spring...."

Argument preview: Court to consider whether right to unanimous jury verdict applies to state criminal trials - SCOTUSblog

(Trinece Fedison)