The United States Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, a man from Oklahoma in the death corridor.
The court ruled 5-3 in favor of Glossip, overthrowing a criminal appeal decision of Oklahoma short.
This decision comes after the state prosecutor general joined Glossip to request a new trial.
Glossip, 62, was sentenced in the murder in 1997 of the owner of a Motel of Oklahoma City where he worked. He had nine execution dates postponed and ate his “last meal” three times.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote on Tuesday for Tuesday for the court: “We conclude that the accusation violated its constitutional obligation to correct the false testimonies.”
She was joined in the decision by other liberal judges Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Brett Kavanaugh and chief judge John Roberts, both conservatives, also joined the opinion.
Judge Amy CONEY BARRETT, another curator, agreed with the opinion, but said that she would have sent the case for more procedures.
Justice Neil Gorsuch did not teach the case.
Don Knight, a Glossip lawyer, described the decision “victory for justice and equity in our judicial system”.
The defense lawyer said Glossip will have the opportunity to have a fair trial “that he has always been refused”.
It will be up to Oklahoma prosecutors to determine how to continue its case.
Glossip has maintained his innocence for 27 years.
His boss, Barry Van Treat, owner of the best Inn budget motel in Oklahoma City, was beaten to death with a baseball bat in 1997.
Glossip’s colleague Justin Sneed was found guilty of the murder, but said that Glossip told him to murder.
Sneed admitted the murder but was able to escape the execution by accepting a plea agreement which involved testifying that Glossip paid him $ 10,000 to do so.
Glossip admitted to having helped Sneed to cover the murder after it happened, but denied having known a plan to kill Van treese.
Since then, it has appeared that prosecutors have not revealed that Sneed, a drug addict of methamphetamine, had been treated for a serious psychiatric disease.
“If the accusation had corrected SNEED on the stand, its credibility would have suffered clearly,” wrote Judge Sotomayor.
“This correction would have revealed to the jury not only that Sneed was not reliable … but also that Sneed was ready to lie to them under oath.”
Glossip was sentenced for the first time in 1998, but it was canceled in 2001. He was again sentenced three years later.
In 2015, a few steps from the execution chamber, its execution was interrupted to examine the lethal injection drugs.
In 2023, the Supreme Court intervened after the Oklahoma and Glossip attorney general asked for a new trial.
A number of big names have supported Glossip’s efforts in the past, notably Pope Francis, Kim Kardashian and Sir Richard Branson.
