Sonia Sotomayor Just Dealt a Major Blow to Shady Prosecutors
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.
He's had three 'last meals' on Oklahoma's death row. The Supreme Court has now tossed his conviction
Richard Glossip has spent 27 years behind bars, most of it on Oklahoma's death row, coming close enough to execution that he has had nine separate execution dates and been fed three “last meals.” On Tuesday,
Supreme Court Orders New Trial For Oklahoma Inmate Richard Glossip
The United States Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.
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Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside ... Sneed’s trial testimony violated the Due Process Clause,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the majority. “Glossip is entitled to a new trial.”
Victim's family 'confident' Oklahoma's Richard Glossip will be convicted after Supreme Court orders new trial
Barry Van Treese's family is "confident" Oklahoma's Richard Glossip will be found guilty after the Supreme Court tossed his conviction and ordered a new trial.
Supreme Court throws out Richard Glossip death sentence, orders new trial in Oklahoma killing
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.
What’s next for former Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip after the Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial
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,
Supreme Court Grants New Trial to Death Row Inmate in Oklahoma
Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
US Supreme Court grants Oklahoma death row inmate Glossip new trial
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip's conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire plot and granted him a new trial, concluding on Tuesday that prosecutors violated their constitutional duty to correct false testimony by their star witness.
US Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip
The US Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man on death row. The court ruled 5-3 in favour of Glossip, reversing an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling. The move comes after the state's Republican attorney general joined Glossip in calling for a new trial.
U.S. Supreme Court grants Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip new trial
The justices reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld Glossip’s conviction despite his allegations that prosecutors wrongly withheld evidence