Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas surprised court watchers on Wednesday when he made a rare intervention in court arguments -- asking a question in a case where a death row inmate is challenging his conviction and sentence. Thomas asked if Flowers’ lawyers in the case had made similar decisions, and the race of any struck jurors. Lawyer Sheri Lynn Johnson said three white jurors were excused by Flowers' lawyer. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPBut the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld his 2010 conviction, despite Evans striking five of six black jurors, arguing that Evans had race-neutral reasons for the strikes. Thomas' last questions in a case were in 2016, and that was his first intervention in a decade.

Source: Fox News March 20, 2019 17:26 UTC