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A new program from APM Reports "In the Dark" series. In March, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Curtis Flowers murder case and attorneys had cited APM reporting in their briefs.

Our reporter Madeleine Baran was inside the courtroom and you can hear what the Supreme Court justices actually said-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chief Justice Roberts, Elana Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and even Justice Clarence Thomas asked a question during oral arguments. It's only the second time he's done so since he's been on the court.

A rare opportunity to hear the voices of the Supreme Court justices. 

At issue was whether DA Doug Evans tried to keep African-Americans off the jury in the 2010 trial. Flowers wasn't at the Supreme Court — he remains on death row in Mississippi — but the "In the Dark" team was. This is what we saw.

In the Dark: The Trials of Curtis Flowers is a story of a black man who has been tried six times for the same crime — a quadruple murder in a small town in Mississippi — and a white prosecutor who is determined to have him executed. 

The program examines the case against Curtis Flowers and reveals that witnesses against him testified falsely; that the prosecutor failed to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence; and that the prosecutor systematically struck black potential jurors from the jury pool, ensuring that Flowers was always tried by juries that were mostly or entirely white.

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"In the Dark" episode 13. After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.

APM Reports: 'In the Dark' Curtis Flowers case before U.S. Supreme Court

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