Hoyt v. Florida
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hoyt-v-florida-196-4221494
title:
Hoyt v. Florida
text:
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. They sentenced her to 30 years of hard labor. Hoyt claimed that her all-male jury led to discrimination and unfair circumstances during her trial. The decisi
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1961 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt_v._Florida
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2023-09-13T02:23:13Z
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