Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from a star witness.
The court ruled 5-3 in favor of Glossip’s appeal, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing the opinion. She said that prosecutors’ failure to correct the false testimony violated Glossip’s due process rights, which “entitled” him to a new trial.
Sotomayor was joined in her opinion by Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, while Amy Coney Barrett partially joined the opinion, and partially dissented. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, and Neil Gorsuch sat out the case (he was a federal appellate judge on the Oklahoma court that previously dealt with litigation tied to Glossip’s case).
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