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🗓️ 6 January 2020
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District Attorney Doug Evans has prosecuted Curtis Flowers for 23 years and six trials. Now he says he's done. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.
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0:00.0 | I'm Madeline Barron and this is in the dark. |
0:03.8 | I'm coming to you today because I have some big news to report about the man who's prosecuted |
0:08.5 | Curtis Flowers for so many years. |
0:11.7 | District Attorney Doug Evans. |
0:22.9 | Since the very first time we spoke with Doug Evans. |
0:24.9 | Hi, Mr. Evans. |
0:25.9 | Hi, I'm Madeline. |
0:26.9 | This is Parker. |
0:27.9 | He's always insisted on one thing. |
0:32.2 | So are you confident that you have the right person that Curtis Flowers is guilty? |
0:36.4 | That I will answer definitely no question. |
0:38.5 | That's not what you're about. |
0:39.5 | He's guilty and he deserves to be convicted. |
0:46.0 | And Doug Evans still feels that way. |
0:47.8 | In a document he filed with the court late yesterday. |
0:51.3 | Evans wrote that he remains confident in the investigation and the jury verdicts. |
0:56.9 | And Evans wrote in the filing, he wants out of the Flowers case. |
1:02.2 | He's stepping aside. |
1:04.2 | Technically he's voluntarily recused himself from the case. |
1:08.4 | And that means that after more than two decades of relentlessly prosecuting the case, six |
1:14.1 | opening statements, six closing arguments, thousands of pages of court transcripts produced |
1:19.6 | in motions filed, Doug Evans and his office are done. |
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