High Court Takes on Race and Juries in Mississippi (1)

The U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 2 took on a case involving race and jury selection against the backdrop of notorious Mississippi murders.

Curtis Flowers argues the prosecutor in his case has a personal history of verified discrimination, which is “highly probative of both his propensity to discriminate and his willingness to mask that discrimination with false explanations” of why the prosecutor wanted African Americans off the jury.

The justices agreed to take Flowers’s case to decide if the state top court correctly applied the Supreme Court’s landmark 1986 decision in Batson v. Kentucky, which set out the procedure for ...