Attorney General O’Connor Responds to Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Decision in Glossip Case

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General John O’Connor launched the next assertion, “Over twenty 5 years in the past, on January 7, 1997, 54-year-old Barry Van Treese was murdered with a baseball bat in Oklahoma City. In 2004, an Oklahoma County jury convicted Richard Glossip of First-Degree Murder for hiring Justin Sneed to kill Mr. Van Treese. The Glossip conviction has been affirmed by means of quite a few appeals and challenges. Today, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Glossip’s current problem, concluding that Glossip failed to present that he’s harmless of the homicide. The Court takes claims of factual innocence ‘seriously’ and completely reviewed Glossip’s utility. The Court acknowledged, as now we have stated all alongside, ‘Far from making a claim of factual innocence, Glossip actually raises a theory of a defense’ thought-about by the Court in prior appeals or purposes. The Court additional discovered ‘no evidence that Sneed has ever sought to recant his testimony in any meaningful way’ and that his testimony 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.”