Supreme court sides with Mississippi man in racial bias case The US supreme court on Thursday ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man convicted of capital murder and on death row in Mississippi, who claimed that his conviction was due to the jury
Pitchford v. Cain (24-7351) | SCOTUSblog In Pitchford’s direct appeal of a capital murder sentence, the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably applied the clearly established precedents of Batson v Kentucky to determine that Pitchford waived his opportunity to rebut the prosecutor’s asserted race-neutral reasons for the peremptory strikes of four black prospective jurors
PITCHFORD v. CAIN (2026) | FindLaw Here, Pitchford's counsel raised an objection under Batson and made a prima facie showing that the strikes of the four black jurors were based on race (step one) The trial court asked the prosecutor for race-neutral reasons for each strike, and the prosecutor offered reasons (step two)