United States Supreme Court
Flowers v. Mississippi, 17–9572
Addressed whether the State of Mississippi's peremptory strike of a particular black prospective juror was motivated by discriminatory intent. Justice Kavanaugh, who delivered the opinion of the 7-2 Court, explicitly stated that the decision broke no new legal ground but rather simply reinforced the Batson decision, in this case involving a man's sixth murder trial (the other five had ended in hung juries or else been reversed on appeal).
Appellate Information
- Published 2019/06/21
Judges
- Kavanaugh
Court
- United States Supreme Court