Flowers v. Mississippi
2019 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flowers v. Mississippi, No. 17–9572, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the use of peremptory challenges to remove black jurors during a series of Mississippi criminal trials for Curtis Flowers, a black man convicted on murder charges. The Supreme Court held in Batson v. Kentucky that the use of peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race is unconstitutional.[1] This case examined whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in how it applied Batson to this case.[2] The Supreme Court ruled that Flowers' case fell under Batson and that the state inappropriately removed most of the potential black jurors during the trials.
Flowers v. Mississippi | |
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Argued March 20, 2019 Decided June 21, 2019 | |
Full case name | Curtis Giovanni Flowers, Petitioner v. Mississippi |
Docket no. | 17-9572 |
Citations | 588 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 2228; 204 L. Ed. 2d 638 |
Case history | |
Prior | Convictions reversed, 773 So. 2d 309 (2000); 947 So. 2d 910 (2007); conviction and death sentence affirmed, 158 So. 3d 1009 (Miss. 2014); vacated and remanded, 136 S. Ct. 2157 (2016); conviction and sentence affirmed, 240 So. 3d 1082 (Miss. 2017); cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 451 (2018). |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Kavanaugh, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan |
Concurrence | Alito |
Dissent | Thomas, joined by Gorsuch (Parts I, II, and III) |