Curtis Flowers Is Finally Declared Innocent After 23 Years In Prison

On Friday, Mississippi prosecutors announced that they would not pursue an unprecedented 7th trial of Curtis Flowers.

Flowers is a 50 year old Black man from Mississippi who has been fighting murder charges he was tried for six times over the past 24 years in front of mostly white juries.

At first he was convicted and put on death row for 23 years after a quadruple homicide in a furniture store he worked at in 1996.

Even though there was no physical evidence and witnesses testified saying that he didn’t match the description, Flowers was still convicted by Mississippi District Attorney Doug Evans who kept him in jail through six different trials. Most of them ended in mistrial or ended up being overturned for his deliberate exclusion of Black jurors.

Thanks to the attention an investigation by the podcast “In The Dark,” Evans decided to recuse himself from the case. That and the fact that he was granted the $250,000 bail, Flowers was able to finally leave prison.

Flowers gave a statement that said:

Today, I am finally free from the injustice that left me locked in a box for 23 years.”

Source:
TheRoot