Published: April 17, 2026
By: Veronica Camenzuli, LSU Manship School News Service
A bill that would allow a committee to recommend parole to incarcerated people convicted in Louisiana through non-unanimous jury verdicts has advanced from a state legislative committee.
Senate Bill 215, approved 4-3 Tuesday along party lines in a Senate judiciary committee. would allow the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections to create a committee to review the appeal records of cases with non-unanimous convictions.
Incarcerated people with non-unanimous jury convictions would be able to send an application for parole to the committee within its first year. The committee would end after three years.
Democrats and advocacy groups opposed the bill, saying it does not go far enough to correct the problems.
The bill is meant to address possibly unjust convictions that are no longer legal in Louisiana after a constitutional amendment requiring unanimous verdicts passed in 2018.
Read more at The Illuminator.
LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 
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