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Terry Pitchford, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. *** capital case ***
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December 15, 2025
High Court Will Review Racial Bias In Miss. Jury Strikes
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear its second case involving the same Mississippi prosecutor's peremptory strikes of Black prospective jurors in a Black defendant's death penalty case — and the same state judge's approval of those strikes.
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October 03, 2025
High Court Asked To Review Racial Bias In Miss. Jury Strikes
It wasn't until after he endured six capital murder trials tainted by racial prejudice that Curtis Flowers, a Black Mississippian, was finally exonerated, had the charges against him dismissed and his name cleared.