Brief filed: 04/30/2024
Documents
Glossip v. Oklahoma
United States Supreme Court; Case No. 22-7466
Prior Decision
Decision below 529 P.3d 218 (Okla. Crim. App. Apr. 20, 2023)
Argument(s)
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ (OCCA) decision to not sustain a confession of error by the State Attorney General in a capital punishment case after the State found that the conviction rested on prosecutorial misconduct represents a significant departure from the OCCA’s century-long practice of crediting the State’s confessions of error and reversing/remanding the lower court decision. Furthermore, the OCCA’s decision ignored prior precedents involving wrongfully withheld impeachment evidence of an inculpatory witness’s mental-health issues, relied on speculation to misconstrue the record, and failed to appreciate the materiality of the multiple Brady violations. The Supreme Court must reverse this decision and order a new trial.
Author(s)
Stacey K. Grigsby, Sameer Aggarwal, Hassan Ahmad, and Bradford McGann, Covington and Burling LLP, Washington, DC; Barbara E. Bergman, NACDL, Tucson, AZ.
