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Some familiar names to the Supreme Court in a death row case over racial bias in jury makeup
Read full article: Some familiar names to the Supreme Court in a death row case over racial bias in jury makeupSome names will be familiar to the Supreme Court in the latest case involving a Black death row inmate from Mississippi.
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No 7th trial for Mississippi man freed from prison in 2019
Read full article: No 7th trial for Mississippi man freed from prison in 2019The U.S. Supreme Court threw out the most recent conviction in June 2019, citing racial bias in jury selection. In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the conviction and death sentence from Flowers sixth trial, which took place in 2010. Justices said prosecutors showed an unconstitutional pattern of excluding African American jurors in the trials of Flowers, who is Black. The Supreme Court ruling came after American Public Medias In the Dark investigated the case. Evans stepped aside from the case after State Attorney General Lynn Fitch took office in January.