OMG.
The record-setting sixth trial of Curtis Flowers will be tried by eleven white jurors and one African-American juror.
"It could have been worse," Dr. Alan Bean blogs from Winona, Mississippi. "At the conclusion of the jury selection process, only ten black jurors remained standing. The state had fifteen peremptory strikes. Had DA Doug Evans so chosen, we could have had an all-white jury."
I cannot begin to imagine the pressure that will be applied to this lone, black juror.
May the spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer be with him. Amen.
"I'm there," she whispers...
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