Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip

[shemp]

With the search function disabled, I'm not sure if there's an existing thread for this case.

Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip

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 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, Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Neil Gorsuch did not take part in the court's consideration of the case.

After first finding that the high court has jurisdiction to review the Oklahoma court's decision, Sotomayor wrote that the prosecution's failure to correct testimony of their key witness during the trial violated Glossip's right to due process, entitling him to a new trial.

"Turning to the merits, we conclude that the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony," she wrote.

It will now be up to Oklahoma prosecutors to determine how to proceed.

Of course, the two "hang-em-high" justices voted for him to die.

In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court lacks the power to override the decisions of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, which declined to grant Glossip clemency in 2023.

"The court's decision distorts our jurisdiction, imagines a constitutional violation where none occurred, and abandons basic principles governing the disposition of state-court appeals," Thomas wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by Justice Samuel Alito.

 

[JayUtah]

Of course, the two "hang-em-high" justices voted for him to die.

It's hard to imagine why the U.S. Supreme Court wouldn't have jurisdiction on a federal question placed properly before it. If he wants to argue that the evidence for a due process violation doesn't rise to a convincing summit, then that's proper. But denying that a federal question was raised (and therefore that the court doesn't have jurisdiction) simply because he isn't convinced by the evidence is disingenuous. Certain people on the court continue to beclown themselves.

 

[MovieandTVFan88]

It's hard to imagine why the U.S. Supreme Court wouldn't have jurisdiction on a federal question placed properly before it. If he wants to argue that the evidence for a due process violation doesn't rise to a convincing summit, then that's proper. But denying that a federal question was raised (and therefore that the court doesn't have jurisdiction) simply because he isn't convinced by the evidence is disingenuous. Certain people on the court continue to beclown themselves.

Isn't this besides the point? The death penalty shouldn't exist in the first place.

In New York, it is really complicated but, essentially, they don't have it. They haven't actually executed anyone since 1963. That's a really simplified version of events. Guess what. I don't really hear people clamoring to have it back.

 

[JayUtah]

Isn't this besides the point? The death penalty shouldn't exist in the first place.

I agree, but that is beside the point in this case. The question in this appeal is whether the state erred in convicting Glossip. The Supreme Court found that the prosecution failed in its duty of candor before the court, and thus the conviction was vacated.

In New York, it is really complicated but, essentially, they don't have it.

This is an Oklahoma case. Oklahoma has the death penalty. New York's law is irrelevant.

 

[MovieandTVFan88]

They shouldn't have it in Oklahoma or anywhere else, for that matter.

It is 2025 and they are still using practices that were considered barbaric in the 1960s.

That alone is astonishing.

 

[Darat]

Previous thread (can be found via a google search for "site:internationalskeptics.com Richard Glossip" and/or the tag "Richard Glossip")

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Thread 'Potentially innocent man about to be executed'

Sep 15, 2015

Slate reports on another apparent travesty of what Justice Blackmun called "the machinery of death:"
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...upreme_court_should_stay_oklahoma.single.html

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