Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip
Washington – The Supreme Court ordered the Richard Glossipan Oklahoma death row inmate joined his bid, and his conviction was thrown out by the state Republican attorney general.
High Court rule 5-3 supports Glosip and reverses the Oklahoma Criminal Appeal Court ruling, which upheld his conviction and death penalty. Justice Sonia Sotomayor commented to the court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh (Brett Kavanaugh) and Ketanji Brown Jackson also joined. Judge Neil Gorsuch did not participate in the court’s consideration of the case.
Glossip was convicted of the 1997 murder of the Oklahoma City motel owner and sentenced to death more than two decades ago. Since then, he has seen nine execution dates come and go and eat his “last meal” three times.
Glossip also chose Oklahoma’s Eighth Amendment to implement the Supreme Court before 2015, and has challenged Oklahoma’s execute method, and His execution stopped several times.
In the latest case involving Glossip, he is willing to abandon his conviction and give him a new trial thanks to the support of Gentner Drummond, the Republican Attorney General of Oklahoma, Because he made a mistake in an earlier trial.
A central issue in the court struggle involves the testimony of Glossip’s co-defendant Jason Sneed, who claimed Glossip paid him $10,000 to kill him Motel owner Barry Van Treese.
Sneider admitted to robbing and assaulting Van Treese and sentenced him to life imprisonment in prison. Meanwhile, Glossip said he was not involved in the murder and repeatedly maintained his innocence on the death row for about 25 years.
Glossip’s first conviction was overturned due to the invalid assistance of his attorney. In the second trial, Sneider told prosecutors that he had never met a psychiatrist but was given lithium after being arrested. But in 2022, the state found prosecutor’s handwritten notes in a banker’s box, a claim Drummond said questioning Sneed’s credibility as a witness.
Attorneys for Glossip and Drummond believe the notes show that Sneed told prosecutors that he was diagnosed with lithium after seeing a prison psychiatrist. affective disorder). However, neither his diagnosis nor the treatment of the psychiatrist was disclosed to Glosip’s defense team, and Drummond said prosecutors made false testimony on the matter.
After the revelation, the Oklahoma Attorney General revealed the box’s materials to Glossip and conducted an independent attorney to review the case. The inspection, conducted by former District Attorney Rex Duncan, ended in April 2023 and concluded that Glossip was denied a fair trial.
New York State asked the Oklahoma Criminal Appeal Court to abandon Glosip’s conviction and verdict, believing that the mistakes made during the trial constituted both flaws. But the court denied the relief and ordered the state to move forward by enforcing Glosip. pleading for leniency to the Oklahoma parole and pardon board, Drummond supportsonce was No success, either After a deadlock, 2-2.
Glossip and Drummond then urged the Supreme Court to step in. In May 2023, the court agreed to suspend his execution, a few months later Agree to hear his case. Gorsuch did not participate in the lawsuit, most likely because he was a judge in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Oklahoma’s 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The dispute in the case occurred in early October, when the Supreme Court’s new term began. Many questions focus on explaining the prosecutor’s notes and how the jury’s perception of the case would be affected if they knew Sneed had been prescribed lithium by a psychiatrist after his arrest.
