Flowers Loses Latest Appeal

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi’s Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s attempt to access prosecutors’ notes on jury selection.

All justices joined in the one-paragraph decision by Justice Josiah Coleman, released Thursday.

Lawyers for Curtis Giovanni Flowers wanted the court to overrule a Montgomery County judge and give them the jury selection notes in hopes that the defense could show racial bias by prosecutors in excluding potential jurors.

Flowers’ overall appeal is still pending in state court.

He’s been convicted of capital murder four times in the fatal shootings of Tardy Furniture store owner Bertha Tardy and three employees in 1996.

The first three convictions were overturned and two other trials ended in hung juries. The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in 2014 after the fourth conviction in 2010.

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