Curtis Flowers

Quick Facts

Full Name	Curtis Flowers
Occupation	Prisoner
Date Of Birth	May 29, 1970(1970-05-29)
Age	54
Birthplace	Winona
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Gemini

Curtis Flowers Biography

Curtis Flowers is one of the most popular and richest Prisoner who was born on May 29, 1970 in Winona, Minnesota, United States.

On the morning of 16 July 1996, a retired employee of Tardy Furniture entered the store and found four bodies: the owner and three workers, all of whom had been shot. Curtis Flowers was suspected after police learned that he had been fired from the store 13 days prior to the murders. He also owed Bertha Tardy $30 for a cash advance on his paycheck. Certain eyewitnesses said they saw Flowers near the front of the store on the morning of the shootings. No gun was found, but bullets from the scene were determined to be the same caliber as a gun that had been stolen from Flowers’s uncle’s car the same day as the murders. Flowers was charged with murder in the shooting deaths of the four victims.

Flowers maintained that he was innocent of the murders and said that he never admitted any crimes to his cellmates. He claimed to simply have stopped going to the job and did not know he had been fired. He said he was wearing Nike shoes that day, the clothes he was wearing did not match the description given by eyewitnesses, and the particulate matter on his hands was due to his having handled fireworks the day before the murders. In 1997 he was convicted of the murder of the store owner by an all-white jury and sentenced to death.

Curtis Flowers Net Worth

Curtis Flowers is one of the richest Prisoner from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Curtis Flowers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Curtis Giovanni Flowers (born May 29, 1970) is a man who has been tried six times in the state of Mississippi, United States, for murder in the July 16, 1996, shooting deaths of four people inside Tardy Furniture store in downtown Winona. The victims were owner Bertha Tardy, and three employees, Robert Golden, Carmen Rigby, and Derrick Stewart, who was 16 at the time of his murder. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal. He was first convicted in 1997; in five of the six trials, the prosecutor, District Attorney Doug Evans, sought the death penalty against Flowers. As a result, he was held on death row at the Parchman division of Mississippi State Penitentiary for over 20 years. He is currently free on bail, awaiting a potential seventh trial on the same charges.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Curtis Flowers Dating?

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A third trial on charges of four counts of murder was concluded on February 12, 2004, and Flowers was convicted of each murder. The jury sentenced him to death. Morgan was again the judge. The verdict was overturned in 2007 by the Mississippi Supreme Court as it held that Evans’s peremptory challenges in jury selection were racially motivated and thus unconstitutional. During the selection process, Evans challenged African-American jurors with its first seven strikes, which resulted in a Batson challenge by the defense (Batson v. Kentucky (1986) established that peremptory challenge cannot be used to discriminate against jurors based on race, ethnicity, or sex). Following its submission of non-racial grounds for its challenges, Evans used all of the state’s five remaining challenges to strike African-American jurors. Evans also used the state’s three alternate juror strikes to exclude African Americans. The final jury consisted of one African-American and 11 whites. (The county population is 45% African American.) One African-American juror excused himself, finding that he could not be impartial.

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Velma Ranked on the list of most popular Prisoner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Curtis Flowers celebrates birthday on May 29 of every year.

The prosecution sought the death penalty for Flowers for the four murders in his fifth trial, which took place in 2008. This time Joseph Loper sat as judge. On the first day of testimony, an alternate juror, the only black woman on the jury, was arrested for perjury for lying during jury selection when she said she did not know Flowers. The trial, with a jury of nine white and three black jurors, concluded in 2008 in a mistrial due to a hung jury. James Bibbs, an African American, was the sole juror opposed to conviction. Immediately after the trial the judge, Joseph Loper, accused Bibbs of perjury for having lied during jury selection. Loper recommended Bibbs be prosecuted by Doug Evans, who, after eight months, recused himself and the new prosecution dropped the charges against Bibbs as there was no evidence. Loper was also recused as judge in Bibbs’s trial.

What is going on with Curtis Flowers?

After the June 2019 Supreme Court ruling, Flowers was moved off death row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and taken to a regional jail. He remained in custody because the original murder indictment was still active, and a judge released him on bail that December.

How old is Curtis Flowers?

52 years (May 29, 1970)

Will Curtis Flowers be compensated?

The state of Mississippi will pay Curtis Flowers $500,000 for his wrongful imprisonment. Mississippi Circuit Judge George Mitchell ordered the compensation on March 2, 2021. Under the judgment, the state will pay Flowers $50,000 a year for the next 10 years. The state did not oppose the judgment.

Who is responsible for the tardy murders?

Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the July, 16, 1996, murders of four people at Tardy Furniture store in Winona. The victims were shot to death after the store opened for the day.

How much does Mississippi pay for wrongful imprisonment?

The following year, a statute was created allowing exonerees up to $50,000 for each year of wrongful incarceration, excluding applicants who “contributed to their own conviction.” Because Edmonds falsely confessed to the crime, the state rejected his application.