Posted on 09/04/2020 3:23:12 PM PDT by Meatspace
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Circuit Judge Joseph Loper dropped the charges against Curtis Flowers on Friday. The indictment was dismissed with prejudice after Flowers was tried for murder six times. The order, signed by Attorney General Lynn Fitch, states, “it is in the interest of justice that the State will not seek an unprecedented seventh trial of Mr. Flowers.”
Flowers was charged with murder in the deaths of four people at Tardy Furniture in Winona, Mississippi, in July of 1996. Carmen Rigby, Robert Golden, Bobo Stewart and Bertha Tardy were all killed
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There’ll be no perfect justice system until Jesus comes back.
Damning (of the media) that no one from the victims’ side was quoted in the report.
Did he do it?
He was found guilty four times, and the verdicts were overturned on appeal because...well, you know. The prosecutor had it in for him, etc.
Flowers was a disgruntled employee who had been fired a few days before. There were no eyewitnesses to the killings, and the gun belonged to his uncle. But his uncle had no reason for killing these people, while Flowers was apparently very angry at being fired and did have a motive.
Damn. Six consecutive juries couldn’t reach a verdict?? Something must be really bizarre about the details of the case.
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Sounds like “Star Chamber” time.
I’ll note that in 6 separate trials not a single jury found him not guilty.
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Yes it is and I admit guilt.
“ I’ll note that in 6 separate trials not a single jury found him not guilty.”
The article indicates that there was prosecutorial misconduct.
The prosecutor should have asked for Change of Venue after the second acquittal. That town may be full of people who have known the accused for years, and would never convict.
Too bad General Flynn didn’t have such a reasonable judge!
Move the trial to Jackson?
Prosecutor withheld favorable evidence. He should be prosecuted and disbarred.
He was acquitted twice?
That does not sound right. It only takes one acquittal. That ends it unless the feds want to impose double jeopardy because of the Constitution's hate crime clause.
Sounds like the appeals court is corrupt.
Good thing he didn’t deface a BLM “mural”...
” Prosecutor withheld favorable evidence. “
Care to link to that so we can consider it?
Check out the “favorable evidence” again. Very little favorable. He had confessed but then retracted, so the confession was not allowed. This happened even though his cellmates confirmed it ... but then they retracted. And a lot of unfavorable evidence was not even admitted.
The “prosecutorial misconduct” was about striking prospective jurors off the panel, as both sides have a right to do. Most of the ones the prosecutor eliminated were black, but having served on many juries, I can say that’s because the answers in the voir dire showed bias. I have been struck off because I have LEO in the family, and also because I was a crime victim (in a crime similar to the one that would be tried).
Yup. Or he should serve the sentence his victim would have.
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