Prosecutors now have more time respond to two motions from Curtis Flowers' defense team: one seeking dismissal of the charges and another seeking bail for Flowers.

Judge Joey Loper had given Doug Evans' office 30 days to respond to those motions on Oct. 2. Evans' office sought an extension, and Loper granted it. The judge's order states that new deadlines will be set in the "near future." Read.

Curtis Flowers' lawyers file a motion asking Judge Joey Loper to remove Evans from the case. "District Attorney Doug Evans has not yet publicly stated whether he will prosecute this case in the months to come or whether he will voluntarily step aside," the motion reads. "Pending a decision ... the Defendant does not want to be perceived as having somehow acquiesced [to] Mr. Evans' participation." The motion is short — arguing that Evans should be recused because of his misconduct in Flowers' earlier trials — and preemptive. Rob McDuff, Flowers' lawyer, promises to submit a more detailed list of reasons for Evans' recusal if the district attorney refuses to hand the case off to another prosecutor.

Evans hasn't yet filed anything in the Flowers case since it returned to Montgomery County. But pressure may be mounting on him. A local newspaper recently published a searing editorial, calling Evans' role in the case "beyond repair" and arguing that "Evans is only making it less likely that a conviction will stick if he stays associated with the case." And Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who's currently running for governor, reportedly told a journalist at a recent campaign event that he has "communicated with Evans about the case and offered his support to assist." Read.

Henderson Hill joins Curtis Flowers' legal team ahead of a possible seventh trial. Hill is a longtime opponent of capital punishment with expertise in death penalty trials and appeals. "The justice system's serial abuse of Curtis Flowers — poor, black and innocent — must and will stop," Hill says in a statement. "I am honored to work ... to achieve that to which Mr. Flowers is so deeply entitled: a full measure of justice and vindication." Read.

In his first official action since Flowers' case landed back in Montgomery County court, Circuit Judge Joey Loper orders prosecutors to submit a written response to the two motions filed by Flowers' lawyers on Sept. 19. Those motions requested dismissal of all charges against Flowers and that a reasonable bail be set for his release. Loper's order requires District Attorney Doug Evans to respond within 30 days. It's expected that Evans will oppose the motions and that Loper will schedule a hearing before ruling on them.

Willie James Hemphill — an early suspect in the Tardy Furniture murders with a long criminal record — is charged with disorderly conduct. He was "swinging a machete and causing a disturbance" at about midnight on Sept. 20 at the Indianapolis trailer park where he lives, according to court records. He'd apparently become agitated after being pepper-sprayed by a woman whose trailer he'd approached while spouting profanities. After being Maced, Hemphill reportedly yelled, "I'll be back for you bitches with something else," and then went to his own trailer to retrieve his machete. When another neighbor attempted to intervene, Hemphill "charged at him while holding the machete over his head." Hemphill was taken to jail and released the following afternoon. A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 7.

After less than a day at the Grenada County Jail, Flowers is transferred to the Winston-Choctaw County Correctional Facility in Louisville, Mississippi, an hour southeast of Winona. Booking officer Phyllis Jenkins says that he'll be housed in a single cell and allowed contact visits with his family.

It's unclear what led to the move. Grenada Sheriff Alton Strider said the day Flowers spent at the jail in Grenada was uneventful. Read.

Curtis Flowers is transferred off of death row and out of Parchman prison, as expected following the reversal of his conviction and death sentence by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. He is moved into pretrial detention at the county jail in Grenada, Mississippi. Read.

Curtis Flowers' case finally makes it back down to the Montgomery County trial court where it began. His lawyer, Rob McDuff, immediately files two motions — one requesting bail, the other that the case be dismissed — that vividly preview how he plans to attack the state's case against his client. The motions are likely to come before the same judge who presided over Flowers' fifth and sixth trials, Mississippi Circuit Judge Joey Loper. A hearing is expected in the fall. Read.

In an interview with The Winona Times, District Attorney Doug Evans bluntly dismisses the high court's 7-2 decision overturning Curtis Flowers' conviction. This is Evans' most revealing public statement since Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in June that Evans violated the U.S. Constitution with his "relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individuals" in Flowers' trials. Read.

On orders from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Mississippi Supreme Court formally reverses Flowers' 2010 conviction. The action, largely a formality, sends the case back to the trial court in Montgomery County, where it will ultimately be retried, pled out or dismissed. Read.

After holding onto the case for several weeks following its decision (as required by its rules), the U.S. Supreme Court sends Flowers' case back down to Mississippi, with orders that the state Supreme Court enter the reversal. Read.

Clemmie Fleming, long the only living person to put Flowers on the same side of town as the murders, tells In the Dark that she's never known what day she saw Flowers running near Tardy Furniture. Fleming, who testified in all six of Flowers' trials, became the prosecution's most important witness after Odell Hallmon recanted to In the Dark last year. Read.

Rob McDuff, a Mississippi civil rights attorney, takes over the helm of Flowers' defense. McDuff, who's won several cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, says that the charges against Flowers should be dismissed without another trial.

Adam Kilgore, general counsel for the Mississippi Bar, which handles attorney discipline in the state, tells In the Dark that he can't confirm or deny the existence of any bar complaints against District Attorney Doug Evans. "Presently, he is active and in good standing. But matters can change. If the committee ends up reviewing a bar complaint, they will look at it and make an informed decision," Kilgore says. "A case just being reversed does not automatically mean that an attorney has committed an ethics violation." Evans is running unopposed for re-election in 2019.

District Attorney Doug Evans tells his hometown newspaper, The Grenada Star, that Curtis Flowers "will have to be retried." Read.

In the Dark reporters confront Hemphill, an early suspect in the Tardy Furniture murders, inside an Indianapolis courthouse. When they tell Hemphill that the alibi he offered them for the morning of July 16, 1996, didn't check out, Hemphill becomes hostile and abruptly ends the interview. Read.

Attorney General Jim Hood tells reporters that he won't take over the Flowers case. "I don't have the authority to go take a case away from a DA," Hood says, according to the Associated Press. Hood says that he doesn't want DA Doug Evans to offer him the case, either, because Hood doesn't have enough prosecutors in his office to handle it (though one of his prosecutors did argue the case before the U.S. Supreme Court in March). Hood is running for governor this fall. Read.

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. In the court's majority opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh writes that "the State's relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individuals strongly suggests that the State wanted to try Flowers before a jury with as few black jurors as possible, and ideally before an all-white jury." Read.