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Supreme Court to Examine Possible Racial Bias in Mississippi Jury Selection

(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over a Mississippi prosecutor’s decision to keep African-Americans off a black death row inmate’s jury in a murder trial. The appeal before the court Wednesday comes from inmate Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for the same crime. Three convictions were tossed out, including one when the prosecutor improperly excluded African-Americans from the jury.

 

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