How to Use nonunanimous in a Sentence

nonunanimous

adjective
  • That is good news for people convicted by nonunanimous juries whose appeals are still pending.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2021-05-17
  • Oregon’s distinction as the last state with nonunanimous juries hasn’t sat well with lawmakers.
    oregonlive.com, 2019-06-20
  • Oregon is the last state that allows nonunanimous verdicts in criminal cases.
    Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 2020-04-20
  • This is not the first time Rosenblum has stood in the way of striking down nonunanimous jury verdicts in Oregon.
    oregonlive, 2021-03-18
  • Its three liberals were in the majority in nearly half of its nonunanimous decisions.
    David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 2021-08-19
  • The Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of nonunanimous verdicts, and is expected to hand down a decision as early as this month.
    Timothy Williams, New York Times, 2020-02-23
  • In addition to the relevancy issue, Ledet wrote that Thomassie's guilty verdict was obtained by a nonunanimous vote of 10-2, and that some statements were inconsistent.
    Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 2017-12-12
  • Several Oregon lawmakers recently sponsored a resolution calling for a ballot measure to repeal an amendment to the state constitution allowing nonunanimous verdicts.
    Washington Post, 2019-08-24

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