A prosecutor consistently excluded black prospective jurors in the trial of a black Mississippian
that racial bias in jury selection violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. A lawyer cannot strike a potential juror from a case without a "neutral" reason,held, and defendants who suspect racial bias may raise an objection. More than three decades later, on June 21st, the justicesa case involving a prosecutor who consistently excluded black prospective jurors from the six murder trials of Curtis Flowers, a black Mississippian.
Justice Kavanaugh’s thorough opinion attracted the votes of Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberal-leaning justices. Justice Samuel Alito joined the judgment but wrote separately to emphasise thatis “a highly unusual case” and “likely one of a kind”. If not for the “unique combinations of circumstances present here”, Justice Alito would have affirmed the Mississippi Supreme Court’s ruling.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch did not find any circumstances worthy of vindicating Mr Flowers’s constitutional rights. In a biting 42-page dissent, Justice Thomas recounted the 1996 killings in detail and blamed his seven colleagues for “needlessly prolong[ing] the suffering of four victims’ families” and disrespecting Mississippi’s state courts. Looking through the record, Justice Thomas finds no evidence of racist prosecutorial intent.
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