Don Knight, Glossip's attorney, said the court was right to overturn the conviction because prosecutors hid critical evidence from the defense team. “Today was a victory for jus
The justices, in a 5-3 ruling authored by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, reversed a lower court's decision that had upheld Glossip's conviction.
The justices found that Glossip’s trial violated his constitutional rights because prosecutors did not turn over evidence that might have bolstered his defense. “Glossip is entitled to a new trial,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for five justices.
The high court ruled 5-3 in favor of Glossip and reversed a decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals that upheld his conviction and death sentence. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion for the court and was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan,
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese, should get a new trial. In a decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor,
The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial,
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A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three "last meals" has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction.
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Hosted on MSNSupreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmateThe Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, staving off his execution. Convicted for the 1997 killing of his former boss,
The United States Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.
The Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction because a key witness lied in court and prosecutors withheld information about him.
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The Supreme Court ordered a new trial Tuesday for Richard Glossip, scrapping his conviction and death sentence in an Oklahoma murder nearly three decades old.
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