A judge has set a new site for next week’s bail hearing for Curtis Flowers.
The Administrative Office of Courts said Monday that his hearing will take place at 10 a.m. Dec.16 at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Winona.
Last week, Circuit Judge Joseph Loper scheduled the hearing for 11 a.m. that date at the Webster County Courthouse in Walthall. The Associated Press reported that court officials said Loper was set to take care of other business in Webster County that day, but his schedule has changed and he moved Flowers’ hearing to the county where Flowers is charged.
Flowers, now 49, is accused of killing four people in July 1996 at Tardy Furniture in Winona. He has been tried six times for murder in their deaths. During the sixth trial in 2010, he was sentenced to death. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned that conviction in June.
Lawyer Rob McDuff is asking Loper to free Flowers on bail and is seeking to have the murder charges dismissed, citing prosecutorial misconduct in jury selection.
Flowers is being held at the Winston-Choctaw County Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville.
