Richard Glossip Asks For New Hearing As Oklahoma Schedules 25 Executions

The lawyer for Richard Glossip says he “received’t cease” attempting to show his consumer’s innocence.  

“That is an harmless man,” lawyer Don Knight stated outdoors the Oklahoma Felony Court docket of Appeals.  

Knight filed a request for a brand new evidentiary listening to for Glossip on Friday. On the identical day, the court docket set Glossip’s execution date for September 22. Twenty-four different executions have been scheduled by way of December 2024.  

Glossip is convicted of the 1997 Oklahoma Metropolis homicide of Barry Van Treese. After a number of trials, Glossip was discovered responsible of ordering Justin Sneed to kill Van Treese. Sneed testified in opposition to Glossip and prevented dying row.  

“We’ve got discovered numerous proof that Wealthy (Glossip) is harmless, that Justin Sneed set him up, that Justin Sneed has been mendacity all these years, and that Richard Glossip had nothing to do with the homicide of Barry Van Treese,” Knight stated.  

Final month, the legislation agency Reed Smith launched its “unbiased investigation” of Glossip’s conviction within the type of an almost 350-page report. Click on right here to entry the report.  

One “concern” listed within the report is the 1999 destruction of a field of “key bodily proof” between Glossip’s first and second trial. The report claims the native district lawyer ordered the proof be destroyed.  

“This investigation confirmed {that a} 28‐12 months veteran of the Oklahoma Metropolis Police Division was particularly requested by the Oklahoma County District Lawyer’s Workplace to destroy a field of proof containing 10 objects,” the report reads.  

Former Assistant District Lawyer Gary Ackley was interviewed by Reed Smith. Within the report, Ackley stated he didn’t understand how the proof was destroyed.  

“I do not know how one thing like this might occur,” Ackley stated, in response to the Reed Smith report. “No thought why it will occur.  In my admittedly defective recollection, that was effectively after we had reemphasized these things couldn’t get destroyed.”  

Oklahoma County DA David Prater stated the workplace by no means directed the police division to destroy the proof. Reed Smith didn’t title a particular worker of the district lawyer’s workplace within the report.  

Knight stated the report, which particulars failures by Glossip’s earlier lawyer and a number of other different considerations, is “the largest factor that we may ask for to point out Richard’s innocence.”  

Knight stated he plans to file a movement to remain Glossip’s execution on Tuesday.