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US Supreme Court holds racial bias in jury selection unconstitutional

June 21, 2019

Via: Jurist

The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a Mississippi prosecutor unconstitutionally excluded black jurors from the murder trial of Curtis Flowers. The conviction will be set aside and Curtis Flowers retried.

Flowers has been tried six times for the murder of four people in 1996; two of the trials ended in mistrials and, in the other four, Flowers was convicted and sentenced to death.

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