Supreme Court sides with Mississippi death row inmate in jury discrimination case

[pamak]

Supreme Court sides with Curtis Flowers in jury discrimination case - CNNPolitics


The Supreme Court held on Friday that a black Mississippi death row inmate should get a new trial, saying that the prosecutor who tried him six times for murder engaged in unconstitutional racial discrimination when striking African-American jurors from the panel.

The decision was 7-2, and was delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said black and white potential jurors are not treated equally by prosecutors.
"The State's relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individuals strongly suggests that the state wanted to try Flowers before a jury with as few black jurors as possible, and ideally before an all-white jury," Kavanaugh wrote.
Curtis Flowers, who is African-American, was tried five times for the 1996 murder of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. But it was only in 2010, after his sixth trial, that a conviction stuck and Flowers was sentenced to death.


Comments:

The above case from Mississippi shows that despite what some people want to believe, race STILL matters in modern America and institutional racism is not just an empty claim of some "leftists." Notice the 7-2 decision in a usually polarized Supreme Court.

 

[HenryChinaski]

Supreme Court sides with Curtis Flowers in jury discrimination case - CNNPolitics


The Supreme Court held on Friday that a black Mississippi death row inmate should get a new trial, saying that the prosecutor who tried him six times for murder engaged in unconstitutional racial discrimination when striking African-American jurors from the panel.

The decision was 7-2, and was delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said black and white potential jurors are not treated equally by prosecutors.
"The State's relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individuals strongly suggests that the state wanted to try Flowers before a jury with as few black jurors as possible, and ideally before an all-white jury," Kavanaugh wrote.
Curtis Flowers, who is African-American, was tried five times for the 1996 murder of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. But it was only in 2010, after his sixth trial, that a conviction stuck and Flowers was sentenced to death.


Comments:

The above case from Mississippi shows that despite what some people want to believe, race STILL matters in modern America and institutional racism is not just an empty claim of some "leftists." Notice the 7-2 decision in a usually polarized Supreme Court.

That's one tenacious prosecutor.

 

[pamak]

The more disturbing thing for me is not the prosecutor. You can always find one assh** anywhere. The more disturbing thing is that this case of racism could not be resolved at the state level, and it had to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.

 

[Crystal]

Sets a good precedent.

 

[tres borrachos]

Supreme Court sides with Curtis Flowers in jury discrimination case - CNNPolitics


The Supreme Court held on Friday that a black Mississippi death row inmate should get a new trial, saying that the prosecutor who tried him six times for murder engaged in unconstitutional racial discrimination when striking African-American jurors from the panel.

The decision was 7-2, and was delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said black and white potential jurors are not treated equally by prosecutors.
"The State's relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individuals strongly suggests that the state wanted to try Flowers before a jury with as few black jurors as possible, and ideally before an all-white jury," Kavanaugh wrote.
Curtis Flowers, who is African-American, was tried five times for the 1996 murder of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. But it was only in 2010, after his sixth trial, that a conviction stuck and Flowers was sentenced to death.


Comments:

The above case from Mississippi shows that despite what some people want to believe, race STILL matters in modern America and institutional racism is not just an empty claim of some "leftists." Notice the 7-2 decision in a usually polarized Supreme Court.

Good decision by SCOTUS.

 

[danarhea]

The more disturbing thing for me is not the prosecutor. You can always find one assh** anywhere. The more disturbing thing is that this case of racism could not be resolved at the state level, and it had to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Actually, the State of Mississippi Supreme Court shot it down the first 5 times. It was the sixth conviction that made it to SCOTUS.