Monday, March 25, 2019

SUPREME COURT - The Curtis Flowers Case

"In Curtis Flowers case, race could be a matter of life or death" PBS NewsHour 3/20/2019

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SUMMARY:  Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the murder of four people killed in a Mississippi furniture store in 1996.  The case is the subject of the second season American Public Media’s “In the Dark” podcast.  Now the Supreme Court is considering whether the district attorney prosecuting Flowers illegally made juror selections based on race.  William Brangham talks to APM’s Madeleine Baran.

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