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Curtis Flowers
Coverage of Curtis Flowers in the Nexus archive.
- Supreme Court rules for Black death row inmate from Mississippi over racial bias in makeup of jury
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Black death row inmate Terry Pitchford from Mississippi, who claimed racial bias in his jury's composition. The decision addresses whether Pitchford's lawyers adequately objected to a trial judge's rulings and whether Mississippi's state Supreme Court reasonably upheld them, with historical ties to prosecutor Doug Evans' past discriminatory jury dismissals.