November 19, 2019
The lawsuit against District Attorney Doug Evans is an outgrowth of a case where the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a murder conviction of an African American man named Curtis Flowers (pictured), citing racial bias in jury selection. Photo courtesy Phil Roeder (Creative Commons)/MDOC
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Suit Seeks to Block Prosecutor from Excluding Black Jurors
Four black voters and a branch of the NAACP sued a Mississippi prosecutor on Monday, asking a federal judge to order him to stop excluding African Americans from juries.
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