Legal Opinion
Curtis Giovanni Flowers v. State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided November 2, 2017No. 2010–DP–01348–SCTPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:
¶ 1. Curtis Giovanni Flowers was indicted on four counts of capital murder with the underlying felony of armed robbery, stemming from the 1996 murders of four employees of Tardy Furniture Store in Winona, Mississippi. Following his sixth trial, he was convicted on all four counts of capital murder and sentenced to death. The Court affirmed his convictions and death sentence in Flowers v. State , 158 So.3d 1009 (Miss. 2014) ( Flowers VI ). Flowers filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court. In Flowers v. Mississippi , --- U.S.…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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