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Circuit Judge Joseph H. Loper Jr. on Wednesday appointed Mike Howie, who has been an assistant district attorney for 17 years, to temporarily succeed Evans in Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster and Winston counties.
Jun 29, 2023 · JACKSON, Miss. — A white Mississippi district attorney has resigned after more than 30 years on the job, during which he prosecuted a Black man six times in the shooting deaths of four people and...
Oct 14, 2020 · Yet the man most responsible for Flowers’ ordeal — District Attorney Doug Evans — has faced no adverse consequences for his handling of the case. Evans is still the chief prosecutor in seven central Mississippi counties.
- Parker Yesko
Jun 29, 2023 · Doug Evans is stepping down Friday, six months before his term ends. He did not immediately return a phone call Thursday seeking comment. He unsuccessfully ran for a judgeship in 2022 and was...
Jul 12, 2023 · Doug Evans, the District Attorney who tried death row exoneree Curtis Flowers for murder six times, is retiring. Mr. Flowers received four death sentences, but each conviction was overturned when courts found that Evans had illegally excluded Black jurors from the jury pool.
Jan 7, 2020 · Jan. 7, 2020. For decades, Doug Evans, a white district attorney, was dogged in his prosecution of Curtis Flowers, a black man, for a 1996 quadruple murder in Winona, Miss., even as the case...
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In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Curtis Flowers' 2010 conviction and death sentence. The court finds that District Attorney Doug Evans intentionally struck black prospective jurors at Flowers' sixth trial, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
