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.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, in light of allegations that the state withheld evidence related to its main witness. The ruling is
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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.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - An Oklahoma man is eligible for a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed new evidence should be considered. For 27 years, Richard Glossip has maintained his innocence in the death of motel owner Barry Van Treese.
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.
Prosecutors' errors violated the constitutional rights of Richard Glossip when he was tried and convicted of murder, so he gets a new trial, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate who was joined in his bid to have his conviction thrown out by the state's Republican attorney general.
The Supreme Court has recently made a groundbreaking decision to grant Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, a new trial. The case turned on the
Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the 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.
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.
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