S2 E7: The Trials of Curtis Flowers

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup of the juries. Each of the four times Flowers was convicted, the jury was all white or nearly all white. So we decided to look more closely at why so few black jurors had been selected. And it wasn't always happenstance. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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1:01.8	It was a six-hour puzzle. I told the pieces in and they fit. The ones that don't believe
1:08.8	it didn't pay attention to the evidence.
1:10.8	For those flowers, we're sentenced to death on four counts of capital murder, that conviction
1:15.1	actually marked the sixth time flowers have been tried in the picture.
1:18.8	And you go six times for the same crime. Well, something is wrong about the Constitution
1:25.8	or something is wrong about the law or something is wrong about the entire system.
1:36.8	One afternoon last summer, our producer Natalie and I decided to drive out to an old abandoned
1:42.2	store in Muni, Mississippi called Brian's Grocery. It's about a 50-minute drive from
1:47.8	Winona. When Natalie and I first drove by the store, we didn't even see it. We had to
1:53.0	turn back around. Oh, it's right there. We just passed it. It was easy to miss.
1:56.8	That's Brian's Grocery. The building that was one Brian's Grocery
2:00.9	is falling apart. The windows are boarded up and the roof is gone. It's like covered
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