Opinion - Justice Gorsuch's recusal may have doomed a man to death
There is considerable doubt about Richard Glossip’s guilt for a brutal 1997 murder in Oklahoma City, for which he has twice been sentenced to death. It also appears unquestionable that he has never gotten a fair trial.
Glossip’s case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, where his fate may actually be determined by the incoherence of the court’s recusal rules.
In a nearly unprecedented move, Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond has joined the defense seeking a new trial for Glossip, on the ground that crucial exculpatory evidence had been unconstitutionally withheld from the defense in his earlier trials.
Under most circumstances that would be enough to resolve the case in Glossip’s favor, but that is not what happened. The Oklahoma courts denied Glossip’s petition, despite Drummond’s intervention, and the Supreme Court appointed an amicus curiae to argue in support of the conviction.
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