{"id":17397,"date":"2019-06-21T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomseymour66.com\/?p=17397"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:35:30","slug":"supreme-court-strikes-down-conviction-of-mississippi-man-on-death-row-for-22-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomseymour66.com\/supreme-court-strikes-down-conviction-of-mississippi-man-on-death-row-for-22-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Strikes Down Conviction Of Mississippi Man On Death Row For 22 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court has struck down the conviction of an African American death-row inmate who was prosecuted six times for the same crime and by the same prosecutor, a man with a history of racial bias in jury selection. <\/p>\n

Writing for the court’s 7-2 majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said<\/a>, “The numbers speak loudly. Over the course of the first four trials, there were 36 black prospective jurors against whom the State could have exercised a peremptory strike. The State tried to strike all 36.”<\/p>\n

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Curtis Flowers has spent 22 years on death row in Mississippi. In his cases, the same prosecutor struck 41 of 42 black jurors. <\/p>\n

Justice Clarence Thomas, the court’s only black justice, had the minority opinion, which was joined in part by Justice Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n

“The majority’s opinion is so manifestly incorrect that I must proceed to the merits,” Thomas wrote. “Flowers presented no evidence whatsoever of purposeful race discrimination by the State in selecting the jury during the trial below.”<\/p>\n