Mississippi inmate tried 6 times for murder granted release on bond
12/17/2019 9:39 am PST
via WREG:
WINONA, Miss. (WREG) -- A Mississippi man whose murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court for racial bias is being released from custody for the first time in 22 years.
During a hearing Monday, a judge set a $250,000 bond for 49-year-old Curtis Flowers.
Circuit Judge Joseph Loper said Flowers would have to wear an electronic monitor.
The U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Flowers' fourth conviction, citing racial bias in the jury selection.
Flowers has been tried six times for murder in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in a Winona furniture store. Two trials ended in mistrials.
Flowers made bail Monday.
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