The SCT, in Flowers v. Mississippi, struck down a defendant's capital murder conviction after finding that the prosecution, in violation of Batson v. Kentucky, improperly used peremptory challenges to remove blacks from the defendant's jury. Below is NPR's discussion of the case accessible here.
Writing for the court's 7-2 majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said, "The numbers speak loudly. Over the course of the first four trials, there were 36 black prospective jurors against whom the State could have exercised a peremptory strike. The State tried to strike all 36."
Curtis Flowers has spent 22 years on death row in Mississippi. In his cases, the same prosecutor struck 41 of 42 prospective black jurors...
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