The All White Jury

Mississippi Goddam, all over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM

Curtis Flowers is a black man on death row. He has been tried six separate times for four murders committed over twenty years ago. Two of the six trials resulted in hung juries and eventual mistrials. The other four resulted in convictions, but which were overturned for repeated, egregious, acts of prosecutorial misconduct by the man who tried all six cases, Doug Evans.

The most recent reversal happened at the Supreme Court where, in a 7–2 decision, the court found that trial number six contained many of the same, repeated, exclusions of prospective black jurors for which convictions from trials numbered one, two and three had been reversed. The fourth trial contained the most black jurors, a statistical anomaly had presented Evans with more black jurors that he could strike peremptorily. That trial ended in a hung jury. In the fifth trial, a lone holdout, a black retired schoolteacher, hung the jury and another mistrial was declared. That man who held out — clearly stating that Evans case was not convincing — was led from the trial in handcuffs and charged with perjury. After the indictment was wrested away from the prosecutor, Doug Evans, the charge of perjury…