Episode six
Four of Curtis Flowers鈥� convictions have been overturned because the prosecutor violated legal procedure. And yet the same prosecutor has continued to try the case.
There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't examined yet 鈥� the makeup of the juries. Each of the four times Flowers was convicted, the jury was all white or nearly all white. These trials were held in a state with a population that鈥檚 almost 40 percent black. So we decided to look more closely at why so few black prospective jurors had been selected and why the juries were so disproportionately white. And we found that it wasn't always happenstance.
Hosted and narrated by Madeleine Baran
Produced by Samara Freemark, APM
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Originally broadcast on APM.
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- Sun 1 Sep 2019 01:32GMT大象传媒 World Service
- Sun 1 Sep 2019 21:32GMT大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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