The United States Supreme Court excluded the sentence in 1997 of the prisoner Richard Glossip who waited for a death penalty for ordering a murder and granted him a new process by concluding Tuesday that the ministries have violated his constitutional duty to correct false Declarations of the false declarations main witness of the case.
The position of the progressive judge Sonia Sotomayor was winning -5 votes to 3, the judges return to a lower court that had maintained the condemnation of the glossip and allowed the progress of the execution despite the charge that the promoters had irregularly removed the evidence that they could be able to help the defense.
“We conclude that the accusation violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimonies,” Sotomayor wrote.
The president of the Supreme Court John Roberts and also the conservative Brett Kavanaught have joined the three liberal members of the court to form the majority.
Don Knight, a glossip lawyer, said that the decision was a “victory for justice and impartiality in our judiciary”.
“We are grateful for a clear court of supporting the previous one that public ministries cannot hide critical evidence from the defense lawyers and cannot stay still while the witnesses are deliberately to the jury,” said Knight.
In the case of topics on the case of 9 October, the judges discussed whether an Oklahoma court correctly evaluated new information that, according to the glossip lawyers, would have helped the defense. The state -general prosecutor Gentner Drummond, a republican, believed that this information was irregularly kept by the ministries. Drummond supported the glossip function.
Glossip lawyers asked the judges to exclude the sentence and grant him a new trial after the criminal court of Oklahoma has maintained his death penalty, although evidence has been found that could potentially demonstrate his innocence in a ‘Independent investigation last year by Drummond.
Glossip, now 62 years old, was sentenced for commissioning the murder of Barry Van Treese, owner of the Best Budget Inn Motel in Oklahoma City, where Glossip was a manager.
All parts agree that Van Treese was beaten to death with a baseball team by the custodian Justin Sneed. Sneed confessed the murder, but avoided the death penalty by accepting an agreement that involved the testimony that has accused Glossip of paying $ 10,000 to commit crime.
The glossip condemnation depended on the testimony of Sneed, who was dependent on methamphetamine. Glossip admitted that he had helped Sneed to cover the murder after the fact, but he denied he know that Sneed planned to kill Van Treese or to have encouraged him to do it.
In 2023, the Supreme Court suspended the execution of glossip while the appeal was developed.
Tests revealed in 2023 by Drummond – including handwritten notes by a promoter of Sneed – asks the credibility of Sneed, according to the glossip lawyers.
Source: Terra
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