IS THIS ILLEGAL?
IS THIS ILLEGAL?
Alissa Fleck
EP#7--Peremptory Challenges & Racial Bias in the US Legal System: The Case of Curtis Flowers
14 minutes Posted Mar 14, 2018 at 12:48 pm.
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In 1996, an African American man named Curtis Flowers was sentenced to death for capital murder. Thus began a legal battle that continues today, a battle that has seen Flowers sucked into a world dominated by endless legal loopholes and rampant racial bias. It all leads us back to peremptory challenges--should they be illegal?