Flowers v. Mississippi

Flowers v. Mississippi
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 20, 2019 Decided June 21, 2019
Full case name	Curtis Giovanni Flowers, Petitioner v. Mississippi
Docket no.	17-9572
Citations	588 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 2228; 204 L. Ed. 2d 638
Case history
Prior	Convictions reversed, 773 So. 2d 309 (2000); 947 So. 2d 910 (2007); conviction and death sentence affirmed, 158 So. 3d 1009 (Miss. 2014); vacated and remanded, 136 S. Ct. 2157 (2016); conviction and sentence affirmed, 240 So. 3d 1082 (Miss. 2017); cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 451 (2018).
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Kavanaugh, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Alito
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Gorsuch (Parts I, II, and III)

Flowers v. Mississippi, No. 17–9572, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the use of peremptory challenges to remove black jurors during a series of Mississippi criminal trials for Curtis Flowers, a black man convicted on murder charges. The Supreme Court held in Batson v. Kentucky that the use of peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race is unconstitutional.^[1] This case examined whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in how it applied Batson to this case.^[2] The Supreme Court ruled that Flowers' case fell under Batson and that the state inappropriately removed most of the potential black jurors during the trials.