Black People : MS Man Goes to Trial 6 Times For Same Case

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African American Mississippi man starts record sixth murder trial

CRIMINAL JUSTICE — BY BILL QUIGLEY ON JUNE 10, 2010 AT 9:00 AM
Audrey Stewart and Davida Finger also contributed to this article

An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to ever go on trial for murder six times for the same crime. Mr. Flowers has been in jail in Mississippi since 1996, accused of the murder of four people at a furniture store. Jury selection started this week in tiny Winona Mississippi, population 5,482.

Mr. Flowers has been in jail since 1996 awaiting trial and was previously tried for these murders in 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007 and 2008. All either ended in hung juries or overturned convictions. The five previous trials have already cost the State of Mississippi over $300,000.

Winona, known as the “Crossroads of Mississippi,” is a small town in a small poor rural county 120 miles south of Memphis and about 100 miles north of Jackson Mississippi. Winona is in Montgomery County. The total population of the county is just over 12,000. The county is 45 percent African American. The median home value in Winona is $51,000.

A 1997 conviction of Mr. Flowers was reversed by the Mississippi Supreme Court because the prosecution improperly used theatrics and irrelevant evidence of other crimes to inflame and prejudice the jury. A 1999 conviction was reversed because the prosecution used hearsay evidence and twisted the facts before the jury.

A 2004 conviction was reversed after the prosecutor exercised all fifteen of his peremptory strikes on African Americans. The Mississippi Supreme Court said that trial “presents us with as strong a prima facie case of racial discrimination as we have ever seen…”

The fourth and fifth trials ended in mistrials when the juries were not able to reach a unanimous verdict.

In the 2007 trial, five African American jurors voted to acquit and the seven white jurors voted to convict. In the 2008 trial, a retired African American teacher held out for acquittal. The prosecutor later charged that juror with perjury, only to drop the charge......


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So with all this mislead and all they continue to beat at this man to imprison him for life
they also saw him acquitte and refused to set him free.......

why haven't any black movement been done to free this man.?

It's a true shame .
 
So with all this mislead and all they continue to beat at this man to imprison him for life
they also saw him acquitte and refused to set him free.......

why haven't any black movement been done to free this man.?

It's a true shame .

No, he has never been "acquitted."

Each trial, so far, has been a "Hung Jury" or a "Conviction Overturn."

So, this trial #6 is another try to either get a conviction that will stick or "acquit" him.
 
So with all this mislead and all they continue to beat at this man to imprison him for life
they also saw him acquitte and refused to set him free.......

why haven't any black movement been done to free this man.?

It's a true shame .

That's the point I often make. It seems the JENA 6 trial was our last great stand so to speak and now we look at these things an simply turn our head. Overall its meant to test our perserverence and we are comin up short of the finish line. It is also for all Americans a test to see if they will stand up and fight for the constitution as this is a gross violation of double jeopardy.
 
That's the point I often make. It seems the JENA 6 trial was our last great stand so to speak and now we look at these things an simply turn our head. Overall its meant to test our perserverence and we are comin up short of the finish line. It is also for all Americans a test to see if they will stand up and fight for the constitution as this is a gross violation of double jeopardy.

How is this "Double Jeopardy?" :10500:

He has never been "Acquitted" nor "Convicted" yet.

There have been 5 trials and ALL of them were either "Hung Juries" or a "Conviction Overturn."

DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Being tried twice for the same offense; prohibited by the 5th Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution.

'[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense.' U.S. v. Halper, 490 U.S. 435, 440 (1989)....

http://www.lectlaw.com/def/d075.htm
 

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