A murder indictment against a Black man tried six times in Mississippi for the same crime and who maintained his innocence throughout was dismissed after a decision by state prosecutors to forego another trial.
The dismissal on Friday marks the end of a long legal road for Curtis Flowers, who fought for decades from death row to beat the charges of a quadruple murder in the town of Winona in 1996, culminating in a lopsided 2019 victory at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices ruled for Flowers 7-2, taking account of local District Attorney Doug Evans’ pattern of keeping Black ...
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