The Supreme Court on Tuesday abolished the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma's Richard Grossip and called for a new trial.
Glossip was first convicted in 1998 of the murder of Barry Van Treese, the owner of his former boss, Motel. The defense argued that the prosecutors did not focus on any significant evidence that could have altered the outcome of the case.
“We conclude that the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to amend false testimony,” liberal Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a majority opinion. “Glossip is entitled to a new trial.”
After Republican Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond took office in 2023, he considered the state's death penalty case, and Grossip came before the ju judges, with one of the first two fair trials I concluded that I had not received it.
Neither side wanted to defend a ruling that rejected a Grossship plea for the new trial, so the Supreme Court was in oral debate last year with Christopher Michelle, former secretary of Secretary John Roberts. stolen to discuss lawsuits against the new trial.
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