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Introducing: “In The Dark”

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Curtis Flowers

"This was the ultimate kind of legal groundhog day excess of prosecutorial power run amok," says CNN's John Sutter. "Curtis Flowers could keep getting a right to a new trial, and guess what would happen? The exact same thing would happen as happened in the previous trial." In some cases, the jury deliberated for, you know, less than an hour before sentencing him to death.

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