Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Wednesday to rule in favor of a Mississippi death row inmate who said the state prosecutor repeatedly kicked black people off the jury each time he was tried for the same murders, in a case that prompted Justice Clarence Thomas to break a three-year silence on the bench.
But in two others, the state courts found that the prosecutor in the case, Doug Evans, wrongly excluded potential jurors on the basis of their race. In the case before the Supreme Court ON Wednesday, Flowers again accused the prosecutor of impermissibly removing blacks from the jury.
Three decades ago, the Supreme Court said prosecutors cannot use those strikes to remove jurors solely because of their race. In rulings since then, the court has explained how judges are to evaluate whether race was an improper factor in jury selection. Justice Elena Kagan said the record also showed that Evans asked many more questions of potential black jurors than he did of whites."The numbers themselves are staggering," she said.
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Clarence Thomas breaks long silence at Supreme Court during jury discrimination caseThe court is investigating actions of a prosecutor who has tried a man six times in a quadruple murder. Joke, 'I am a teacher but haven't taught a lesson for 30 years. Today I did. Now write an article about me.' Yeah the last time he talked it didn’t go so well He must be getting ready to die or something!!!
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Thomas speaks as U.S. high court weighs death row inmate's race claimThe U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared poised to side with a black Mississ... ФАК ОФФ
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Southern California Edison power lines sparked deadly Thomas fire, investigators findInvestigators have determined that Southern California Edison power lines ignited the 2017 Thomas fire, a massive blaze in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties that killed two people and later gave rise to a massive mudflow that resulted in at least 20 deaths. and the state of California’s improper maintenance of dry brush surrounding the power lines contributed to the negligence. The environmentalists for all the dead wood that caught fire. Not because of climate change? We all knew it but not the liberals. Because they have to scare us every chance they get to promote green energy industry because they are getting paid by them. And stupid peoples buy the story.
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