Justice Clarence Thomas breaks three-year silence in case of black man tried six times for murder

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Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday broke his three-year silence at the Supreme Court by asking questions during arguments in a racial discrimination case involving a black man who has faced six trials for a quadruple homicide in the 1990s.

told an audience at Harvard Law School that he thought the justices “should listen to the lawyers who are arguing their case and allow the advocates to advocate.”

A decision in the case is expected by late June. Flowers, who is currently on death row in Mississippi, is asking the justices to overturn his conviction.

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