Erica Navalance
Associate Director of Strategic Criminal Litigation at the Promise of Justice Initiative, focusing on excessive sentences, capital punishment, and systemic injustices; lead attorney on cases challenging non-unanimous jury convictions including work on Lloyd Gray's case.
Best podcasts with Erica Navalance
Ranked by the Snipd community
Feb 1, 2026 • 36min
Louisiana still imprisons people convicted by 'Jim Crow juries'
Erica Navalance, Associate Director of Strategic Criminal Litigation at the Promise of Justice Initiative, fights excessive sentences and non-unanimous convictions. She discusses the origins of Jim Crow jury rules, Louisiana’s refusal to apply the Ramos decision retroactively, and the case of Lloyd Gray — a 1980 conviction shaped by split juries, racial harm, and prosecutorial misconduct.
