Flowers v. Mississippi reverses conviction after prosecutor struck 41 of 42 Black jurors across six trials

The Supreme Court reversed 7-2 the capital conviction of Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Winona, Mississippi whom District Attorney Doug Evans had tried six times for the same murders. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority, finding that Evans had struck 41 of 42 Black potential jurors across the six trials and had applied racially disparate questioning in Flowers' sixth trial. NPR had published an investigative series documenting Evans's pattern before the ruling, which Judge Kavanaugh cited directly.