US prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a black man who was tried six times and spent more than 20 years in prison for the same …
US prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a black man who was tried six times and spent more than 20 years in prison for the same murders. Curtis Flowers served 23 years for a quadruple murder committed in Mississippi in 1996. He has always maintained his innocence. The prosecutor in all six trials was ultimately accused last year by the US Supreme Court of trying hard to keep black people off the jury and eventually resigned from the case. Flowers — who has been sentenced to death four times in the case — was released on bail in December, although another trial was still possible.
