Posted on 06/21/2019 5:29:35 PM PDT by zeestephen
The court, in a 7-2 ruling written by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, found that the prosecutor's actions violated the right of Curtis Flowers, 49, under the U.S. Constitution to receive a fair trial. [Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas voted "No."]
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
"In his dissenting opinion, Thomas described the ruling as "manifestly incorrect." Thomas noted the court's majority "does not dispute that the evidence was sufficient to convict Flowers or that he was tried by an impartial jury."
” Thomas noted the court’s majority “does not dispute that the evidence was sufficient to convict Flowers or that he was tried by an impartial jury.”
Well then why the hell did they overturn the conviction?
The race card trumps everything.
On the morning of July 16, 1996, a retired employee of Tardy Furniture entered the store and found four bodies: the owner and three workers at the store; all of whom had been shot. Curtis Flowers was suspected after police learned that he had been fired from the store 13 days prior to the murders. He also owed Bertha Tardy $30 for a cash advance on his paycheck. Certain eyewitnesses said they saw Flowers near the front of the store on the morning of the shootings. No gun was ever found, but bullets from the scene were determined to be the same caliber as a gun that had been stolen from a car. No direct evidence tied Flowers to the gun or the gun to the crime.[9] Flowers was nevertheless charged with murder in the shooting death of the four victims.
Call me crazy, but I’d like to see a little more evidence before determining this guy deserves the death penalty
This was someone who murdered four of his coworkers in a premeditated revenge killing. This guy is a cold blooded mass murderer.
Me too. The evidence of the gun seems very weak for a death penalty conviction. (see screen name).
I would bet the rent money that there was far far more evidence.
They will just give him a new fair trial and convict him again.
PING to a possible reason for appeal from the moslim cop...
Did you not see Thomas’s statement?
The defendant was convicted in his first three trials and the sixth trial.
Three of those four convicting juries had one Black person.
Clarence Thomas asked an interesting question during “Orals.”
Did the Defense lawyers “strike” any potential jurors because they were white?
The case wasn’t being re-tried at the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court wasn’t looking at the evidence at all. They were simply looking at whether prosecutors violated the law during jury selection by attempting to purposely dismiss black jurors because they are black. (You obviously can’t do that.)
Apparently something is very wrong with the prosecutors in this case because this is the 6th time the conviction was overturned because of problems in how the trial was conducted.
We’re expecting Noor’s appeal as a matter of fact.
There were black jurors for his trial. Not the same situation.
+ Motive
- physical evidence
= no proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Proper call by the SCOTUS.
Re: Proof beyond a reasonable doubt
The Supreme Court case did not involve evidence or bias.
The appeal claimed that the prosecutor used one of his “strikes” to reject a potential juror because he was Black.
The accused has been convicted four times.
Three of those convicting juries had one Black juror.
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