S2 E13: Oral Arguments

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue was whether DA Doug Evans tried to keep African-Americans off the jury in the 2010 trial. Flowers wasn't at the Supreme Court -- he remains on death row in Mississippi -- but the In the Dark team was. This is what we saw. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:00.0	previously on In the Dark.
0:04.0	The United States Supreme Court has granted Curtis Flowers petition for review.
0:09.0	The court will determine whether there was racial bias on that.
0:12.0	Now it is unconstitutional to strike a prospective juror on account of race.
0:17.0	So the prosecutor wouldn't know that he was trying to get rid of all the black folks.
0:20.0	That says that's what he's trying to do.
0:22.0	You know, so I was under arrest.
0:25.0	And the police come and put handcuffs on me and take me to jail, you know.
0:30.0	Right here from the courtroom.
0:32.0	The law is a degree on this.
0:34.0	That's a lot of questions.
0:36.0	I don't kind of question.
0:38.0	They don't say why.
1:01.0	The court nine passengers will open a board C-14-2DC.
1:14.0	This is In the Dark, an investigative podcast by APM reports.
1:19.0	I'm Madeline Barron.
1:21.0	This season is about the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man from a small town in Mississippi,
1:28.0	who spent the past 22 years fighting for his life, and a white prosecutor,
1:33.0	who spent that same time trying just as hard to execute him.
1:38.0	Today we go to Washington, D.C., to the nation's highest court,
1:46.0	to hear oral arguments in the case of Curtis Flowers versus Mississippi.
1:51.0	At the center of all of this is a question.
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