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In exchange for avoiding the death penalty, Sneed confessed and told police that Glossip had instructed him to commit the murder. [15] Glossip insisted on his actual innocence and refused to accept a plea bargain. [15] In July 1998, an Oklahoma jury convicted Glossip of the murder and sentenced him to death. [15]
Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip will finally get the chance to argue for a new ... Convicted of the murder of Barry Van Treese. Glossip’s case dates to January 7, 1997, when Barry Van ...
At trial, Glossip's attorney did not show the jury a video of police appearing to coerce Sneed into implicating him. In 2001, an appeals court agreed, and granted Glossip a new trial. Amid questions about Sneed's reliability as a witness, Glossip's attorney requested that, before retrial, the State disclose all of Sneed's statements (written ...
Drummond, a Republican, has said Glossip could face a new trial in the 1997 killing in Oklahoma City of his former boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, in what prosecutors have alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme. If Glossip were to be tried again, the death penalty would be off the table, Oklahoma City District Attorney Vicki Zemp Behenna has ...
Glossip’s lawyers have focused on concerns about key testimony in the case provided by Justin Sneed, who carried out the 1997 murder. Sneed testified that Glossip had hired him to kill motel ...
Despite decades of failed death row appeals, Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip may get another shot in court at overturning his conviction after a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices indicated ...
Lockett was convicted of the 1999 kidnapping, rape, and murder of a 19-year-old woman. [3] In 2015, Lockett and other death row inmates had unsuccessfully challenged an Oklahoma law allowing the names of companies supplying drugs used in executions to be kept secret in Glossip v. Gross. [3]
Glossip has always maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing in Oklahoma City of his former boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, in what prosecutors have alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme. Another man, Justin Sneed, admitted robbing and killing Van Treese but testified he only did so after Glossip promised to pay him $10,000. Sneed ...