Even by true crime standards, the case at the center of In the Dark season two is extraordinary.
The acclaimed podcast probes the layers of longstanding criminal justice cases. This past summer, it devoted its second season to Curtis Flowers, a black man from Mississippi who has been tried six times — yes, six — for the 1996 murders of four small-town furniture store employees. Flowers is the only man in US history to stand trial six times for the same crime.
But now, as of an order issued Friday, Flowers will go before the Supreme Court — which could decide whether his guilty verdict will be overturned or upheld once and for all.
Despite a lack of evidence connecting him to the murders, and a case which legal advocates have argued was “built on faulty eyewitnesses, improper forensics, and false confessions from untruthful informants,” Curtis was found guilty three times in succession after each subsequent guilty conviction was overturned on appeal by higher courts….
