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"Women are too sentimental for jury duty" (1915) The jury of matrons was an early exception to the exclusion of women from juries. Stemming from English common law, matrons in the American colonies were occasionally called upon in cases involving pregnant women to offer expertise on pregnancy and childbirth. [1]
Florida, a case concerning Florida woman Natoya Cunningham who was sentenced to eight years in prison after a six-person jury found her guilty of aggravated battery and retaliation against an ...
Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 (1961), was an appeal by Gwendolyn Hoyt, who had killed her husband and received a jail sentence for second degree murder.Although she had suffered mental and physical abuse in her marriage and showed neurotic, if not psychotic, behavior, a six-man jury deliberated for just 25 minutes before finding her guilty. [1]
Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which held that systematically excluding women from a venire, or jury pool, by requiring (only) them to actively register for jury duty violated the defendant's right to a representative venire. [1] The court overturned Hoyt v.
A Florida woman who sued her former employer for firing her while reporting to jury duty is breathing easier after a court ruling earlier this week found she was discharged illegally. "I'm very ...
The woman who pleaded guilty to dressing as a clown and fatally shooting the wife of a man she later would marry has been released from prison, according to Florida ... up in jury duty: 'You went ...
The all-white jury in Ocala, Florida, found 60-year-old Susan Lorincz guilty after 2 1/2 hours of deliberation. Lorincz faces up to 30 years in prison at sentencing.
Wyoming Territory: Justice Howe gives women the rights to sit on a jury. [26] The first woman to serve on a jury was Eliza Stewart Boyd. [27] 1871. Mississippi: Married women are granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] Arizona: Married women are granted separate economy. [4]