A ‘Jim Crow jury’ prisoner fights for freedom
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Brandon Jackson is one of more than 1,500 people imprisoned in Louisiana on non-unanimous verdicts, which the United States Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional last year. Will he get a chance at freedom?
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New Orleans, Louisiana — The Bossier Parish Courthouse is located in the town of Benton in northwest Louisiana, about a 30-minute drive across and then up the east bank of the Red River from Mollie Peoples’s home in Shreveport, the former Confederate capital of the state.
It is where her son, Brandon Jackson, was convicted of participating in an armed robbery and sentenced to life in prison nearly 25 years ago. Now, each trip to the squat, beige building, flanked by gas stations and fast-food restaurants, has come to represent her enduring commitment to him and his struggle for freedom. In that quarter of a century, she hasn’t missed a court date.
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