Curtis Flowers Sues The DA Who Put Him On Trial 6 Times

[Jilly_in_VA]

A Mississippi man freed after nearly 23 years in prison filed a lawsuit Friday against the district attorney who prosecuted him six times in the killings of four people at a small-town furniture store.

Curtis Flowers was released in December 2019, about six months after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the conviction and death sentence from his sixth trial, which took place in 2010. Justices said prosecutors showed an unconstitutional pattern of excluding African American jurors in the trials of Flowers, who is Black.

The lawsuit filed Friday also names as defendants three investigators who worked with Montgomery County District Attorney Doug Evans. The county is not named as a defendant.

The suit says Evans and the investigators engaged in misconduct, including "pressuring witnesses to fabricate claims about seeing Mr. Flowers in particular locations on the day of the murders" and ignoring other possible suspects.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1034198690/curtis-flowers-mississippi-lawsuit-prosecutor-da-freed-prisoner
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Mississippi goddam

[Historic NY]

1. Hoep he get damages from the DA personally.

[stillcool]

2. good for him, I hope he stays safe

sad. Sad about what happened in the first place, and sad about what could happen to him now. I don't know this world I'm living in, but it's changing me, and the way I think.

[Demovictory9]

3. Good

[susanr516]

4. I hope Mr. Flowers wins his lawsuit

I learned about this case a couple of years ago from the podcast "In the Dark." The Flowers case was in Season 2. There are 20 episodes, all of them excellent. The family believes that the investigative reporting done by "In the Dark" was the main reason Mr. Flowers was finally exonerated. If you are interested, you can listen to the entire series at https://features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/season-two/. I highly recommend it.