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"The
controversy continued this week when a critical witness in Richard
Glossip's appeal case, Michael Scott, was arrested for unpaid fines in
Rogers County. Scott
spent time in prison with Justin Sneed, the man who killed Barry Van
Treese in 1997 and claimed Glossip was the mastermind behind the murder.
Scott
told defense attorneys he overheard Sneed go back on that story,
bragging behind bars that it was a setup and Glossip did nothing wrong.
When Scott was arrested this week, Glossip's attorneys were livid. In
a filing asking the court to mandate the state stop intimidated
witnesses, the attorneys said multiple officers were involved, guns were
drawn, and that Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater told
Scott he orchestrated it all to force him to talk. “You’ve
probably got a combined 100 years’ experience between the three of us
and we’ve never heard of something so outrageous,” Glossip’s attorney
Don Knight said. “These are witnesses; they’re not defendants or
suspects. They came forward on their own
volition because they had information they thought was important before
the state killed an innocent man and this is how they’re treated.”