Justices Side with Black Death-Row Inmate in Fight Over Jury (1)

A divided US Supreme Court sided with a Mississippi man fighting a capital murder conviction over a prosecutor’s alleged efforts to exclude Black jurors from his trial, in a rare victory for a death-row inmate.

The 5-4 decision on Thursday marked the second triumph at the court for a Black man fighting a case tried by Doug Evans, a former district attorney whom the court in 2019 said exercised a “blatant pattern” of striking Black jurors in the murder trials of Curtis Flowers.

The latest case dealt with the narrow question of whether the Mississippi Supreme Court acted properly when ...