The Supreme Court specifically call out the trial judge. Essentially Evans used a peremptory strike against a potential black juror for cause. When Evans explained the reason for striking, the defense objected and pointed out a white juror had essentially the same ties as this lady, but Evans did not strike her. The only real difference between the two was she was black and he was white.
After calling out that the trial court made an error, they proceed to say Evans has a pattern of using discriminatory strikes and he has been called out by the State Supreme Court for it before.
So trial judge screwed up, defense tried to object but was ignored and Evans is a scumbag. I have no idea if Flowers did or did not commit the crime.