In conclusion, as the author and Justice William Douglas promote, the idea of a non-unanimous jury system for criminal cases can be assumed to be a biased legal system when concerning minorities. Even the juries inclined to be mostly white and male, which has been pointed out by the author and Harvard’s Carles Ogletree. Ogletree argued that “non-unanimous jury [functionally silenced] the views of racial and ethnic minorities and women,” and that these juries “allowed prosecutors to keep one or two minorities on a jury without having to worry about their effect on the outcome of the trial” (58). Looking at the evidence in even contemporary cases such as Derrick Todd Lee of Baton Rouge in 2004, even though they could not find absolute evidence
