The court is investigating actions of a prosecutor who has tried a man six times in a quadruple murder.
By Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court Email Bio Follow March 20 at 1:45 PM The Supreme Court seemed deeply troubled Wednesday about the pattern of a Mississippi prosecutor who has tried an African American man six times for a quadruple murder and has blocked the vast majority of black potential jurors.
[Race and the death penalty: Supreme Court to hear case of Curtis Flowers, tried six times for quadruple murder] But the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Flowers’s 2010 conviction, in which Evans struck five of six black potential jurors. It said he had legitimate, race-neutral reasons for striking the jurors.
Sheri Lynn Johnson, representing Flowers, said the court has made clear in past rulings that such history is relevant. When picking a jury, some potential panel members are eliminated by the judge and lawyers for cause — that they are likely to be biased, for instance, or because they say in a capital case that they could not impose the death penalty.
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