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Mississippi told to pay $500K to wrongfully imprisoned man

A judge is ordering Mississippi to pay $500,000 to a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned more than 22 years

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In the Dark: Season 2

Network: American Public Media

Genre: true crime, criminal justice

Length: 40-60min

Status: complete-ish (intermittent update episodes)

Recommend? Yes!!!

Madeline Baran and her excellent team are at it again, with a very different story to season one. This is the story of Curtis Flowers who has been tried and appealed and retried 6 times by the same prosecutor for a murder he didn't commit in a small town in Mississippi. The thing I appreciate the most is the high quality of the reporting done here - they interview everyone they can, dig in basements for old records, compile statistics that are so good they're eventually used in the case before the supreme court, debunked bad science. It reminds me a bit of Serial (season 1). It is clear that this is a huge miscarriage of justice and it reveals how messed up the legal system is because even after successful appeals, the same set-in-his-ways racist prosecutor can decide to try Curtis again. and again. and again. It's a really compelling listen, I highly recommend it.

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Curtis Flowers’s Conviction Tossed by Mississippi Supreme Court

Mr. Flowers, a black man, has been tried by a white prosecutor six times over the killings of four people in a furniture store in 1996. His case was featured in the podcast “In the Dark.”

Definitely check out “In the Dark,” just like Serial (especially Season 3) it does a great job of framing the virulent racism in the “criminal justice system.” 

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

Curtis Flowers was tried seven times for the same crime, and the court said due it made its decision due to bias in jury selection. Now, it's up to Mississippi to try him again or not.

Now let’s just hope Mississippi gets the message. 

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In the Dark season 2 is SO GOOD, is anyone else listening to this?

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Curtis Flowers has been tried six (6) times for the same crime. Double Jeopardy is supposed to be unconstitutional in the United States. But once again, the Constitution often doesn’t apply to the rights of Black people.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/03/18/curtis-flowers-what-you-need-know-six-murder-trials-us-supreme-court/3128798002/

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District attorney Doug Evans—the prosecutor who is responsible for this two decades long abomination of justice—needs to be held accountable. He should be immediately disbarred and brought up on felony charges.

The U.S. criminal “justice” system routinely gets rid of black jurors with peremptory strikes. This is not an anomaly. The system needs to be changed. (It isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as intended: against Black and Brown people).

And I have nothing but disgust and contempt for Clarence Thomas.

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Curtis Flowers Sues The DA Who Put Him On Trial 6 Times

The Mississippi man, who was freed in 2019 after nearly 23 years in prison, sues the district attorney who prosecuted him six times in the k

A Mississippi man freed after nearly 23 years in prison filed a lawsuit Friday against the district attorney who prosecuted him six times in the killings of four people at a small-town furniture store.

Curtis Flowers was released in December 2019, about six months after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the conviction and death sentence from his sixth trial, which took place in 2010. Justices said prosecutors showed an unconstitutional pattern of excluding African American jurors in the trials of Flowers, who is Black.

The lawsuit filed Friday also names as defendants three investigators who worked with Montgomery County District Attorney Doug Evans. The county is not named as a defendant.

The suit says Evans and the investigators engaged in misconduct, including "pressuring witnesses to fabricate claims about seeing Mr. Flowers in particular locations on the day of the murders" and ignoring other possible suspects.

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