SCOTUS Overturned Curtis Flowers's Conviction 7-2 (Thomas Dissented)

[tishaLA]

If you're unfamiliar with the In the Dark pocast, I suggest you listen because it is a case with more racist fuckery than I can remember. He's been on death row for 22 years, been tried 6 times for the same crime....it's nuts. Here's NPR's write-up:

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. <...>

Doug Evans, a district attorney in Winona, Miss., prosecuted Flowers — who prior to this case had no criminal record — six times.During that time the state Supreme Court three times threw out his murder conviction for prosecutorial misconduct.

The misconduct was not some technicality. It ranged from misleading the jury about evidence that did not exist to striking prospective jurors based on race.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/732159330/supreme-court-strikes-down-conviction-of-mississippi-man-on-death-row-for-22-yea

Edit: And a link to the In the Dark podcast https://www.apmreports.org/in-the-dark

[hlthe2b]

1. Has Thomas EVER voted to overturn a death penalty decision against an African American?

Not in my memory or at least not often. And, his dissenting opinions when they do strike one down are just blood-curdling.

Does he secretly hate POC? Is it like the very unfortunate gay person who cannot bring themselves to "come out" and project their hatred towards gays?

I just don't understand why he is not just excoriated daily...

[Kind of Blue]

2. This amazing news!

[JI7]

3. Gorsuch is evil