The Color of Conviction: Curtis Flowers and the Myth of Equal Justice

A compulsively readable insider's account of the most prosecuted case in American law-and what it tells us about race bias in jury selection.

Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi, stood trial six times over more than two decades for a crime he did not commit-repeatedly facing nearly all-white juries after the prosecutor repeatedly struck Black jurors.

From a member of Flowers's defense team, The Color of Conviction is a deeply reported, riveting examination of the case that gripped th...