{"id":2352423,"date":"2024-10-09T05:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-review-death-row-case-with-backing-from-oklahoma-ag-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T05:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:14:19","slug":"supreme-court-to-review-death-row-case-with-backing-from-oklahoma-ag-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-review-death-row-case-with-backing-from-oklahoma-ag-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to review death row case with backing from Oklahoma AG &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-to-review-death-row-case-with-backing-from-oklahoma-ag-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2352423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200b U.S.\u200d Supreme Court is set\u2064 to \u2063review the\u200c case \u200bof\u200d Richard Glossip, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-hollywood-movies-that-snuck-conservative-themes-on-screen\/\" title=\"10 Hollywood Movies That Snuck Conservative Themes on Screen\">death row inmate<\/a> whose conviction for the\u200d 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese has garnered unusual backing from Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Glossip, who has maintained his innocence, is seeking a new trial\u200d based on claims that he\u200c did not\u200b receive \u200ba fair trial, with his defense alleging that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorneys-claim-government-manufacturing-evidence-to-charge-incarcerate-jan-6-prisoners\/\" title=\"Attorneys Claim Government Manufacturing Evidence to Charge, Incarcerate Jan. 6 Prisoners\">prosecutors withheld critical evidence<\/a> and allowed false testimony from\u2064 the key witness, Justin Sneed. Drummond&#8217;s\u200c support follows an independent investigation that raised serious concerns about\u2063 Glossip&#8217;s\u200d trial\u200d and the integrity \u2064of Sneed&#8217;s testimony,\u2063 which\u200b was pivotal in securing Glossip&#8217;s conviction.\u200b While \u200csome \u2062Republican officials \u200chave voiced skepticism about Glossip&#8217;s guilt, the family of \u200dVan Treese insists on maintaining the \u200cconviction. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision could have significant implications for Glossip&#8217;s\u200b future and the administration \u200bof the death penalty in Oklahoma.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Supreme Court to review death row case with backing from Oklahoma AG<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1778710\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Wednesday is poised to consider the fate of death row inmate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2809817\/supreme-court-weighs-richard-glossip-appeal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Glossip<\/a>, a rare death penalty case with even more unusual support from Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Drummond and defense attorneys for Glossip are set to appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking a new trial for Glossip, whose case has spanned nearly three decades. Glossip has long maintained his innocence in the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese, a motel owner in Oklahoma City. The case will focus on whether Glossip received a fair trial. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FILE &ndash; This Feb. 19, 2021, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Glossip. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The key witness in Glossip&rsquo;s case, Justin Sneed, admitted to killing Van Treese but testified that Glossip, the motel&rsquo;s manager, offered him $10,000 to commit the crime. Sneed&rsquo;s testimony helped secure Glossip&rsquo;s 1998 conviction, which was later upheld in a 2004 retrial. In exchange for his testimony, prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for Sneed, who is serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Glossip&rsquo;s execution has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-pressure-biden-admin-to-prosecute-alleged-iranian-agent\/\" title=\"Republicans Pressure Biden Admin To Prosecute Alleged Iranian Agent\">delayed multiple times<\/a>, partly due to concerns about Oklahoma&rsquo;s lethal injection procedures, but also because of mounting doubts about the fairness of his trial. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-takes-15-new-cases-including-another-vape-industry-suit-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Supreme Court takes 15 new cases, including another vape industry suit - Washington Examiner\">death row inmate&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s attorneys argue that prosecutors withheld critical evidence and allowed false testimony to go unchallenged. Don Knight, one of Glossip&rsquo;s attorneys, claims that Sneed lied on the stand about key details, including his psychiatric history, and that prosecutors were aware but did not correct the record.<\/p>\n<p>After an independent investigation of Glossip&rsquo;s case, Drummond now supports Glossip&rsquo;s plea for a new trial. He has cited violations of Glossip&rsquo;s constitutional rights, specifically the failure to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence, known as a &ldquo;Brady violation,&rdquo; and the knowing use of false testimony, which violates due process.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FILE &ndash; Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond stands during the playing of the national anthem at the inauguration ceremonies on Jan. 9, 2023, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo\/Sue Ogrocki, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The people of Oklahoma deserve absolute certainty in the administration of the death penalty,&rdquo; Drummond said in a statement. He believes executing Glossip based on Sneed&rsquo;s compromised testimony would be unjust.<\/p>\n<p>Drummond is not the only Republican official who feels similarly. <\/p>\n<p>After Republican state Rep. Kevin McDugle read the review, he found &ldquo;grave&rdquo; concerns with Glossip&rsquo;s conviction. As a defender of the death penalty, he said he would highly reconsider his position if Glossip was ever put to death.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know right now they believe that he&rsquo;s guilty. And I would, too, but after what I&rsquo;ve seen and that report, there&rsquo;s no way that Richard Glossip was guilty. There&rsquo;s no proof at all that proves that he&rsquo;s guilty,&rdquo; McDugle told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Drummond&rsquo;s and McDugle&rsquo;s support for Glossip, the family of Van Treese remains firm in their desire to see Glossip&rsquo;s conviction upheld, expressing frustration over the continued delays in carrying out the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court receives dozens of petitions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-has-a-lot-of-thinking-to-do\/\" title=\"Merrick Garland Has a Lot Of Thinking To Do\">death row inmates<\/a> each year, and often their requests are denied outright with no further review, making the justices&rsquo; review of the case for Glossip quite notable. And support from Republican officials such as Drummond is even more unique.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Glossip is being represented by veteran Supreme Court litigant Paul Clement, who more recently achieved success in a case representing a group of fishermen, which ultimately led to the overturning of the 1984 <em>Chevron <\/em>doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>Glossip has already been to the Supreme Court before. He was granted reprieve in 2015, and the high court later ruled 5-4 against him in a case surrounding the drugs involved in lethal executions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The justices have one more capital case on their horizon this term. Earlier this week, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3177234\/supreme-court-15-new-cases-including-vape-industry-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>agreed<\/a> to hear oral arguments in <em>Ruben v. Luis<\/em>, which surrounds a death row inmate&rsquo;s bid to obtain post-conviction DNA testing that he claims would exonerate him.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision on whether Glossip is granted a new trial is expected later this term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1778710\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1778710\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court to review Richard Glossip&#8217;s death row case with AG support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2352424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MixCollage-08-Oct-2024-04-47-PM-6856.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[41272,42621,42620,32275,32076],"class_list":["post-2352423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-death-row","tag-legal-review","tag-oklahoma-ag","tag-supreme-court","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MixCollage-08-Oct-2024-04-47-PM-6856.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}