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September 8, 2020

Prosecutors Drops Case Against Curtis Flowers After Six Trials and 23 Years Behind Bars
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In Mississippi, prosecutors have dismissed the case against Curtis
Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times and spent over two decades
in prison on capital murder charges. Flowers was accused of killing four
people in 1996 at a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, but the
Mississippi Supreme Court overturned his first three convictions, and
Flowers's next two trials ended in hung juries. In 2010, a jury in his
sixth trial found Flowers guilty and sentenced him to death. Last year,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Flowers deserved yet another trial, saying
prosecutors had engaged in racial discrimination for striking Black
jurors from the panel.


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