Remarkable outcome as #CurtisFlowers is freed on bail after being tried six times for murder. Thanks to incredible reporting by @InTheDarkAPM, we learned of the many questions around the evidence, and the apparently race-based jury selection that occurred nyti.ms/2S8Mxc7
@InTheDarkAPM That podcast was some of the best reporting I've read or heard in recent years. Talk about impact journalism. @InTheDarkAPM
@InTheDarkAPM When the issues of the jury's racial composition reached SCOTUS, #BrettKavanaugh wrote a majority opinion stating that the Mississippi DA who prosecuted the case violated Flowers's constitutional rights. That was in June.
@InTheDarkAPM Yesterday, the judge who freed Flowers on bail quoted Kavanaugh's comments from his confirmation hearing, fourteen months ago. That state of Mississippi, the judge said, "will reap the whirlwind" over the DA's recent inaction on the case.
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