Black Jurors Exclusion in Death Row Case Gets High Court Airing

That a man was tried six times for the same crime is remarkable enough.

But it’s a Mississippi prosecutor’s pattern of excluding black jurors from the trials of Curtis Flowers—a black man facing execution—that’s the focus of upcoming U.S. Supreme Court arguments.

The decision in the case, expected by late June, “will tell us a lot about the Court’s commitment to eradicating jury discrimination,” said Chris Kemmitt, senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., which filed an amicus brief supporting Flowers.

The case is a test of the Constitution’s promises of equality and fair trials. ...