2020-09-04 | No 7th trial for Mississippi man freed from prison in 2019 | PBS NewsHour
'Curtis Flowers was convicted multiple times in a bloody slaying and robbery at a small-town furniture store in 1996. '
'In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the conviction and death sentence from Flowers’ sixth trial, which took place in 2010. '
'Flowers was convicted four times in the slayings: twice for individual slayings and twice for all four killings. '
'JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man freed last year after 22 years in prison will not be tried a seventh time in a quadruple murder case, a judge ruled Friday after prosecutors told him they no longer had any credible witnesses. '
'Justices said prosecutors showed an unconstitutional pattern of excluding African American jurors in the trials of Flowers, who is Black. '
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'Curtis Flowers was convicted multiple times in a bloody slaying and robbery at a small-town furniture store in 1996. '
'In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the conviction and death sentence from Flowers’ sixth trial, which took place in 2010. '
'Flowers was convicted four times in the slayings: twice for individual slayings and twice for all four killings. '
'JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man freed last year after 22 years in prison will not be tried a seventh time in a quadruple murder case, a judge ruled Friday after prosecutors told him they no longer had any credible witnesses. '
'Justices said prosecutors showed an unconstitutional pattern of excluding African American jurors in the trials of Flowers, who is Black. '
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