A state court denied bail on July 23 for an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction the U.S. Supreme Court overturned earlier this year.
The Supreme Court on Feb. 25 voted 5–3 to throw out the conviction of Richard Eugene Glossip after the state admitted the prosecution was flawed.
The high court ordered a retrial for Glossip after it found that prosecutors, who were obligated to correct false testimony, failed to do so.
Glossip was convicted of murdering his employer, Barry Van Treese, in 1997 while working as manager of an Oklahoma City motel. Justin Sneed, also convicted in the killing, was given life imprisonment without parole in a plea deal that required him to testify against his co-worker. Glossip admitted he assisted Sneed in concealing the murder after the fact but said he didn’t know Sneed intended to kill the victim….