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| Court overturns conviction of death-row inmate for jury selection bias |
| By cruxnow.com- Carol Zimmermann |
| Published: 06/25/2019 |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court, citing racial bias in the prosecutor’s jury selection, overturned the death sentence of a Mississippi African American man who had been tried six times for a quadruple murder charge. In the 7-2 decision June 21, the court reversed the 2010 conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had argued that the prosecutor, who is white, had prevented African Americans from serving as jurors in his case. Prosecutors will now have to decide if Flowers should be tried again. “The state’s pattern of striking black prospective jurors persisted from Flowers’s first trial through Flowers’s sixth trial,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the court’s majority opinion. “Equal justice under law requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process,” he added. Read More. |
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