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Thread: Richard Eugene Glossip - Oklahoma Execution - Stayed

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    According to the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles website, the clemency hearing for Richard Glossip has been scheduled for November 9th, 2022, at 1.30 PM. The link is malfunctioning, so I can't post it.

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    Attorney General responds to Broken Arrow lawmaker's call for Glossip evidentiary hearing

    Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor responded to a Broken Arrow lawmaker's call for a new hearing in the Richard Glossip death penalty case.

    O'Connor says not 1, but 2 juries have found Glossip guilty and recommended he die for his crime.

    The AG says the issues that Rep. Kevin McDugle raises in his call for a new hearing are not new and the court has heard them before.

    McDugle and dozens of other lawmakers signed the letter which, among other things, says the key witness wanted to recant his testimony, but the AG says that's not true.

    The AG's full statement reads:

    "Barry Van Treese was murdered with a baseball bat in the middle of the night in a room of the hotel he owned. Richard Glossip managed that hotel and received an apartment in the hotel as part of his compensation. After meeting with Mr. Van Treese about mostly financial issues, Glossip had reason to fear that he would be fired the next day.

    "Justin Sneed was an 18-year-old maintenance man at the hotel. He also received a room at the hotel as part of his compensation. The evidence at trial showed that Glossip had significant influence over Sneed.

    "Sneed testified that Glossip offered him money to kill Mr. Van Treese at Glossip’s first jury trial in 1998. The jury unanimously convicted Glossip of murder for hire and recommended the death penalty. The judge imposed the death penalty.

    "The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals sent that conviction back for a second jury trial, because the court did not believe Glossip’s attorney adequately represented him.

    "Before the second jury trial, Glossip’s new attorney met with Sneed in an apparent attempt to get Sneed to not testify against Glossip at his second trial.

    "Glossip’s attorney admitted that he met face-to-face with Sneed. It’s on the record before Glossip’s second trial that Glossip’s attorney gave Sneed a copy of a court decision that would allow Sneed to keep his sentence even if he refused to testify against Glossip in the second trial.

    "Despite these efforts by Glossip’s attorney to influence him, Sneed again testified in the second jury trial in 2004 that Glossip offered Sneed money to kill Mr. Van Treese. The second jury unanimously convicted Glossip of murder for hire in 2004 and recommended the death penalty. Again, the judge imposed the death penalty. The State did not make any kind of additional deal with Sneed in respect to his testimony in the 2004 trial.

    "Sneed has stood by his testimony at all times since, including when the Reed Smith law firm interviewed Sneed in August and September of 2022. Representative Kevin McDugle’s letter raises many of the same issues that Glossip has been presenting to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals since his conviction in 2004. He currently has two cases pending before the Court. The State’s responses to these two cases address these issues and are based upon the record and evidence. The State’s responses summarize the evidence, which demonstrates that Glossip enlisted Sneed to kill Mr. Van Treese.

    "Any characterizations of misconduct by the State are false and concern issues that were known by Glossip and his team prior to Glossip’s second trial.

    "Further, these allegations have no bearing on the evidence establishing Glossip’s guilt. Sneed has continued to affirm his testimony is the truth. The prosecutor did not violate any rules regarding witnesses. The Sinclair Station video had no reach into a hotel room across the street. Further, the video camera only viewed the inside of the gas station store. Glossip’s failed polygraph test is irrelevant; after failing the test, he admitted he knew more than what he originally said, thus, evidencing that he lied during the test. Moreover, the polygraph test was not admitted at trial as it was not admissible under the law. And even without Cliff Everhart’s testimony, multiple witnesses testified that Glossip provided false accounts of seeing Mr. Van Treese after Glossip knew Mr. Van Treese was already dead in the hotel room; Glossip himself admitted as much.

    "Glossip’s two most recent claims—that the State withheld evidence that Sneed wished to ‘recant’ his testimony and the State improperly fed Sneed testimony from other witnesses—are false:

    "First, Sneed has consistently, and most recently this past September, affirmed the truth of his trial testimony against Glossip and explained that he was hoping to secure a better plea deal with the State when he used the word ‘recant.’ Although Sneed did not get a better deal, he still testified against Glossip."

    "Second, the State announced on the record to the Court and Glossip’s attorneys during Glossip’s second trial in 2004 that it had reached out to Sneed’s attorney to get clarification on other testimony which had been heard in the trial. Glossip’s defense team did not raise any alarm then, likely because such discussions between attorneys are allowed by the court rules."

    "The Court of Criminal Appeals is the proper tribunal to hear the claims of innocence and requests for hearings. My office is confident that the Court will consider the issues raised and render a decision according to the law."

    (source: KTUL news)
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    These reps see this as a chance to be "one of the good Republicans!" They adopt a position that comports with the values of the media and their masters, be it open borders, gun grabbing, simping for violent criminals, etc. and then court positive media coverage at the expense of the archetypal Republican American. That politicians in Oklahoma have chosen to elevate a conman like Glossip to a quasi-Christ status at the expense of the Van Treese family is especially reprehensible. I hope that Glossip gets executed on December 8 because Drummond will fold.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Governor Kevin Stitt granted a new reprieve to Richard Glossip, and rescheduled his execution to February 16th, 2023.

    https://www.sos.ok.gov/documents/executive/2051.pdf
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    This is getting out of hand. Stitt is embarrassingly weak on crime and, even worse, this new execution date is past O'Connor's term and into Drummond, who will probably be a complete tinhorn.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    He blatantly did it because we're in the election week, we all know it. Anyway, let's hope this thing be fully litigated before O'Connor term expires.

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    He literally said in a debate he would "allow executions" yet isn't allowing this one. What loser.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Oklahoma court denies new hearing for death row inmate

    By Associated Press

    An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday denied death row inmate Richard Glossip’s request for a new evidentiary hearing that his attorneys suggest would prove his innocence in the 1997 beating death of Glossip’s boss at an Oklahoma City motel.

    Glossip’s attorneys raised several propositions in asking the Court of Criminal Appeals for a new hearing, including that he is factually innocent of the murder, the state destroyed vital evidence, his trial attorneys were ineffective and that he is intellectually disabled.

    But the court noted that Oklahoma law doesn’t allow defendants to continue to appeal issues that have either been raised previously or could have been raised earlier but were not. The court also cast doubt on Glossip’s theory that his co-defendant, Justin Sneed, acted alone or with his girlfriend to rob and kill Barry Van Treese.

    “The evidence he proffers to support this theory consists of affidavits from jailhouse informers, drug dealers, exotic dancers and residents of the Best Budget Inn,” the court wrote. “These affidavits do not provide the clear and convincing evidence that Glossip would like this court to believe.”

    Glossip, who has long maintained he is innocent in the murder-for-hire killing of Van Treese, has narrowly avoided execution several times, including in 2015 when his lethal injection was called off at the last minute when the wrong drug was delivered to the prison. That drug mix-up led to a moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma that lasted for more than six years before the state resumed executions last year.

    Earlier this month, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued Glossip another temporary reprieve from his scheduled Dec. 8 execution to give the Court of Criminal Appeals more time to consider his last-minute appeals. A separate appeal that alleges prosecutorial misconduct and an attempt by his co-defendant Sneed to recant his testimony, is still pending with the court.

    “We still have another petition pending with the court setting forth Sneed’s desire to recant his testimony against Rich and, most shockingly, documenting the prosecutor’s serious misconduct in coaching Sneed to change his testimony in the middle of trial,” Glossip’s attorney, Don Knight, said in a statement. “Our fight to free this innocent man will continue, and we remain optimistic that truth and justice will prevail, both for Rich and the citizens of Oklahoma.”

    Prosecutors acknowledge Glossip did not kill Van Treese, but maintain that he paid Sneed, the hotel maintenance man, to do it. Sneed, who received a life sentence but was spared the death penalty, was a key witness in two separate trials in which Glossip was convicted.

    Attorney General John O’Connor noted the court found no evidence that Sneed ever sought to recant his testimony in any meaningful way and that Sneed’s testimony at trial was corroborated by compelling evidence.

    “The litigation in this case is not over, but we are relieved for the family of Mr. Van Treese and for the people of Oklahoma that, after waiting so long for justice to be served, one more stage of litigation is behind them,” O’Connor said in a statement.

    https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-...c57b9471f18c62

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    Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denies second application for evidentiary hearing for Richard Glossip

    By News 9, News On 6

    The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has denied the second application for an evidentiary hearing for death row inmate Richard Glossip.

    The court also denied an application for post-conviction relief and a motion for discovery.

    Thursday's denial is the second of two appeals that were denied this month.

    Richard Glossip’s attorney, Don Knight, released this statement following the court's decision: “The only thing we asked for in our two petitions was a fair hearing on our newly discovered evidence that the jury never heard. We are extremely disappointed that instead of giving us this opportunity, the Court improperly assumed the role of factfinder, and closed off our opportunity to begin to right this tragic wrong. But our fight to free this innocent man will never end. It is now clear that the District Attorney’s office has been withholding exculpatory information from the Glossip defense team ever since the trial, and we know there is still more information they have not shown us. What are the authorities so afraid of? It is critical that a full review of all the evidence be conducted before the State of Oklahoma makes the irrevocable mistake of executing an innocent man.”

    Glossip has been convicted twice for ordering the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese.

    Lawyers for Glossip said the new information they presented to the court shows Glossip is innocent.

    Two different juries said Glossip killed Treese alongside Justin Sneed.

    Glossip is awaiting execution, while Sneed is serving life in prison after he testified against Glossip.

    Glossip was set to be executed in Nov., but Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered the execution to get pushed back to February.

    Glossip is now set to be executed on Feb. 16, 2023.

    https://www.newson6.com/story/63764f...ichard-glossip

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    Richard Glossip's new clemency hearing has been set for January 3rd, 2023, at 9:00 AM.

    https://www.ok.gov/ppb/

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