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Supreme Court Strikes Down Conviction Of Mississippi Man On Death Row For 22 Years

Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the same crime, and the court said it made its decision due to bias in jury selection. Now it's up to Mississippi whether to try him again.
The Supreme Court has ruled to strike down a conviction of a death row inmate over racial bias in jury selection.

The Supreme Court has struck down the conviction of an African American death row inmate who was prosecuted six times for the same crime and by the same prosecutor, a man with a history of racial bias in jury selection.

Writing for the court's 7-2 majority, , "The numbers

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