Biff_Poindexter
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After 6 Trials, Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Curtis Flowers
Flowers spent 23 years behind bars for a 1996 quadruple killing at a Mississippi furniture store. Prosecutors said Friday that there were no credible witnesses available for a seventh trial.
www.npr.org
"What it took for Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent some 23 years behind bars, to have charges dropped against him: six trials plagued by prosecutor misconduct, multiple overturned convictions, and a dogged investigation by a podcast into a quadruple murder at a Mississippi furniture store. Now, more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Flowers' latest conviction, prosecutors have decided to stop pursuing the case. In their filing, prosecutors wrote that there were no credible witnesses for an unprecedented seventh trial, effectively putting to bed a decades-long pursuit of Flowers for the 1996 slayings in the small city of Winona, Miss. "As the evidence stands today, there is no key prosecution witness that incriminates Mr. Flowers who is alive and available and has not had multiple, conflicting statements in the record"
Just in case some folks are not aware -- there are folks out there who are not just protesting against police shooting unarmed citizens -- they are also protesting against the gross injustice, corruption and inequity that exists in our judicial system..Mr. Flowers was lucky enough to gain the attention of legendary attorneys like Ron Kuby and investigators like Ira Todd -- but there are tons of others who aren't so lucky -- and are rotting in jail due to prosecutors like Doug Evans....
Doug Evans, the guy who prosecuted Flowers in all 6 trials, the guy who the Mississippi Supreme Court said "this case presents us with as strong a prima facie case of racial discrimination as we have ever seen" ...the guy who even Justice Brett Kavanaugh said "it looks as though [Evans] is designing, trying to create a record for striking black jurors.” -- on top of that, this prosecutor withheld evidence, paid informants to lie, etc, etc etc -- and he has not faced any consequences whatsoever...
However, Doug Evans is not as rare as we would like to believe...a report on prosecutorial misconduct cited 660 cases of prosecutorial misconduct in the past 5 years -- and out of all of those cases; only one prosecutor was disciplined....it aint just policing on the streets that we should be demanding accountability from -- the same goes for the courts too....unless all of that constitutional talk about equal protection under the law is just bullshit you don't really mean...