There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't examined yet — the makeup of the juries. Each of the four times Flowers was convicted, the jury was all white or nearly all white. These trials were held in a state with a population that’s almost 40 percent black. So we decided to look more closely at why so few black prospective jurors had been selected and why the juries were so disproportionately white. And we found that it wasn't always happenstance.

Hosted and narrated by Madeleine Baran
Produced by Samara Freemark, APM
Editor: Jasper Corbett

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