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.
Supreme Court: Curtis Flowers fought for decades from death row to beat the charges of a quadruple murder. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 for him in 2019, taking account of a local prosecutor’s pattern of keeping Black prospective jurors from deciding his fate over the years.
‘Finally Free’: “Today, I am finally free from the injustice that left me locked in a box for ...
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