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FILE - Prosecutor Doug Evans holds a photo during a trial for Curtis Flowers on June 14, 2010, in Greenwood, Miss. Evans is resigning Friday, June 30, 2023, after more than 30 years as district attorney and four years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Flowers' final conviction because it found that Evans had excluded Black people from jury service. Evans tried Flowers six times in the 1996 killings of four people. Flowers, who was released from prison in 2019, always maintained his own innocence. (Taylor Kuykendall/The Commonwealth via AP, File)

Mississippi prosecutor who excluded Black jurors is resigning after more than 30 years

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

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Curtis Flowers speaks with reporters as he exits the Winston-Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Miss., Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Flowers' murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court for racial bias was he was granted bond by a circuit judge and is free, with a number of conditions for the first time in 22 years. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Man freed on bond after 22 years still faces legal battle

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2017, file photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers. A judge has set a new site for next week's bail hearing for Flowers, who has been tried six times for murder in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store. The Administrative Office of Courts said Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, that Flowers' hearing will take place Dec. 16 at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Winona. (Mississippi Department of Corrections File via AP, File)

Judge holding bond hearing for man tried 6 times in killings

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Suit seeks to block prosecutor from excluding black jurors

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 14, 2010 file photograph, Clemmie Flemming points out to prosecutor Doug Evans, center, where she spotted Curtis Giovanni Flowers on the morning of four slayings at Tardy Furniture in Greenwood, Miss. Evans, a Mississippi prosecutor who has tried the same man six times in a death penalty case now will decide whether to seek a seventh trial after the U.S. Supreme Court found racial bias in jury selection. (Taylor Kuykendall/The Commonwealth via AP, File)

Prosecutor could decide on seventh trial in Mississippi case

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen under stormy skies in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Court tosses black man’s murder conviction over racial bias

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits as he is introduced during an event at the Library of Congress, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Clarence Thomas breaks three-year silence during oral argument

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers, whose murder case has gone to trial six times. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

Supreme Court troubled by jury selection bias in Mississippi

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers, whose murder case has gone to trial six times. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

Supreme Court set for case on racial bias in jury selection

By Jeff Amy and Mark Sherman - Associated Press