S2 E14: The Decision

In The Dark

The New Yorker

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🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, June 21, after months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the Curtis Flowers case. In a 7-2 ruling, the justices threw out the conviction from his sixth trial, in 2010. The decision of what happens next -- whether to release Flowers or begin a seventh trial -- now lies with the same prosecutor who's pursued him from the beginning: Doug Evans. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:00.0	At 8 o'clock this morning, our reporter is Raymond Tunga-Carr and Curtis Gilbert knocked
0:08.6	on the door of Archie Flowers.
0:11.0	Curtis Flowers' father.
0:12.5	Hi, good morning, Mr. Flowers.
0:16.7	Hi, how are you?
0:18.8	Maybe you can come in.
0:20.8	I sat down on the couch.
0:22.2	Raymond pulled out his phone and together they waited.
0:27.8	So I am just going to pull up the Supreme Court website.
0:31.9	That's right.
0:33.1	Connected?
0:34.6	They waited to see if today would be the day that a decision would come down from the
0:39.5	US Supreme Court in the case of Curtis Flowers versus a state of Mississippi.
0:45.8	What's going through your mind right now?
0:50.0	Just praying about it.
1:00.3	And then?
1:01.3	So it's 9 o'clock right now.
1:04.9	So the Supreme Court announced a decision.
1:10.0	So they reversed it.
1:11.0	They overturned his conviction.
1:13.0	Yes, Lord.
1:17.0	It's still all over here.
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