I am not a lawyer, I slept at a holiday inn last night though and I do know this from my history classes... Louisiana, unlike any state in the union, bases its law on the code originally derived in the French empire of the 1800s. Every other American state uses “common law” from old England perhaps that’s why initially McKnight’s shooter was able to be convicted without a unanimous verdict. but I’m with JetBlue, total BS for the operational reversal to be his “out of jail free card” . Should be a retrial
I read this morning that shortly after Gasser was convicted Louisiana changed the law to 12-0 so his attorneys argued that the new law should be applied retroactively and being convicted 10-2 was unconstitutional. Who the hell knows. Some conflicting stories out there, I tell ya.
