WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday reversed the conviction 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.
The decision was a victory for Curtis Flowers, who is black. He was tried six times for the 1996 murder of four furniture store employees in Winona, Mississippi where he had recently worked. Of the first five trials, one conviction was thrown out over questions about evidence and two resulted in mistrials.
Kavanaugh said that in the six trials combined, the prosecutor moved to strike 41 of the 42 black prospective jurors and"engaged in dramatically disparate questioning of black and white prospective jurors."When a jury is being selected, lawyers for each side are allowed to exclude a certain number for potential bias or other cause. But they are also allowed to make peremptory strikes, which require no explanation.
When the case was argued in March, Justice Clarence Thomas broke his three-year courtroom silence by asking a few questions. He wanted to know if the defense lawyers used any peremptory challenges to exclude potential jurors. Told that they did, Thomas asked,"And what was the race of the jurors struck there?" The answer: only whites.
its always the raceesism and the gullible libidiots eat it up
Yea!
Anyone notice that NBC only does divisive stories anymore?
That’s the Deep South for you. No surprises there.
Amazing stuff.
Wow 😮, justice, how I have missed thee!
Good news
Something really stinks in America..and it’s racism..such people must be denied the right to exist, Period
This is a dilemma. It's not justice if not applied the same across the board, regardless of race. However, he could be guilty? I stick by the preceding statement. 10 guilty men should go free before 1 innocent man is convicted. True statement.
Justice was not blind and blatantly bigoted for years with this case. The White prosecutor should be jailed for incompetency, racism & he should be disbarred! Bravo to the SCOTUS for righting a horrible injustice!
DISGUSTING!!! Back to The Jim Crow South.
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