The Supreme Court throws the sentence of the deuse of Oklahoma’s death for the defective trial

Washington – the Supreme Court On Tuesday, he expelled the conviction for Richard Glossip murder in the progress of Oklahoma’s death because a key witness lied in the court and prosecutors held information about him.

The decision, a rare victory for an inmate of the death corridor in the conservative court, means that prosecutors now have to decide whether to put Glossip again in the trial again. The court was divided 5-3 by throwing Glossip ‘sentence, and the conservative judge Neil Gorsuch did not participate.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, said the Prosecutor’s Office “violated her constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.” As a result, “Glossip has the right to a new trial,” he wrote.

Glossip, 62, He was convicted of organizing the murder in 1997 of his boss at the Oklahoma City motel, where they worked.

He has been in the death corridor since 1998 and has faced an imminent execution on several occasions.

Glossip’s last appeal received a great boost when the State Attorney General, republics Gentner Drummond, agreed that the conviction was not solid and asked the court to govern in his favor.

The conviction was largely based on the testimony of the key witness Justin Sneed, who carried out the 1997 murder. Sneed, who declared himself guilty and avoided a death sentence, testified that Glossip had hired him to kill the owner of the motel of the motel Barry Van Treise.

The appeal revolved around claims that prosecutors held information about SNED and that he gave false testimony in the trial. The prosecutors knew, but did not reveal in the second Glossip trial in 2004 that Sneed had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium after his arrest.

Sneed also falsely testified that he had never seen a psychiatrist.

After an investigation, Drummond concluded that because Glossip’s conviction rested significantly on Sneed’s credibility, should not be maintained.

The State has stopped according to Glossip’s statement that it is innocent.

The Supreme Court has a conservative majority 6-3 that rarely intervenes to prevent executions from being carried out, but occasionally intervenes when there has been a clear spontaneous abortion of justice.

Despite Drummond’s findings, an Oklahoma Appeals Court confirmed the death sentence Last year, and the State forgiveness and Probation Board voted against Granting Glossip clemency.

The original prosecutors who had worked in the case, Connie Smothermon and Gary Ackley, played Drummond’s account and said they had not been properly consulted during the investigation.

They wrote a letter questioning the new findings that was attached to a brief amicus Filed by relatives of Van Treese who urged the court to defend the conviction for Glossip.

The Supreme Court previously indicated an interest in the case of Glossip in May 2023 for intervene to avoid being executed. The court also blocked the execution of Glossip in 2015 in separate litigation on the state injection procedure of the State.