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The Case of Curtis Flowers
📻 Episode #212
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 07, 2021
About This Episode
On July 16, 1996, the owner of Tardy Furniture Company and three employees were found shot and killed. Curtis Flowers, who previously worked at the store, was charged with four counts of capital murder. Even though no physical evidence linked him to the crime, District Attorney Doug Evans used coerced and incentivized witnesses and racially…
The Case
On July 16, 1996, the owner of Tardy Furniture Company and three employees were found shot and killed. Curtis Flowers, who previously worked at the store, was charged with four counts of capital murder. Even though no physical evidence linked him to the crime, District Attorney Doug Evans used coerced and incentivized witnesses and racially discriminatory jury selection to send Curtis to Death Row. When his conviction was overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct, DA Evans continued with the same tactics for 5 more trials over the next 23 years. It took the Supreme Court, the Mississippi Attorney General's office, and a podcast called In The Dark to set him free.
Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Gunshot Residue Evidence released on October 7, 2020: https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/podcast/s12e2-wrongful-conviction-junk-science-gunshot-residue-evidence
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00:04:57“Speaker 1: The smallest town like that, you know that you happened Speaker 1: to previously work and even the fact that you worked Speaker 1: there at one time really shouldn't have set off too Speaker 1: many alarm bells. Maybe somebody would have quickly looked into Speaker 1: it and ruled you out exactly, But this wasn't just anybody, right.”
00:19:00“Speaker 1: I agree, could have been twenty dollars. Oh, here's the Speaker 1: twenty from the store. What do you know? Amazing. I'm Speaker 1: glad you could laugh about it because I'm about to cry. Speaker 1: A forensic sometimes you have the lad keep him crying, Okay. Well,”
00:32:52“Speaker 1: don't remember the day. I've been confused of the day Speaker 1: from the beginning. I just didn't know how to say it. Speaker 1: I was scared I was going to jail. Wow okay. Speaker 1: Odell Hallman also recanting, saying that everything was all make Speaker 1: believe on his part, and he also said that Evans”
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