"Richard Glossip is innocent and his execution
would be the result of a wrongful conviction, according to a petition
for a writ of certiorari filed by Mr. Glossip’s attorneys today with the
United States Supreme Court. Information on the appeal was circulated to news organizations worldwide the afternoon of Tuesday (September 29). The petition comes a day after a splintered Oklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals denied, in a close 3-2 vote, Mr. Glossip’s request for
an evidentiary hearing and a stay of execution. Mr. Glossip is scheduled
for execution in Oklahoma at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30. Arguing that the execution of Mr. Glossip would be unconstitutional
because of the weakness of the evidence against him, the petition
states: “’The State’s entire case’ against Mr. Glossip turned upon the
testimony of Justin Sneed.Newly discovered evidence completely undermines Sneed’s
credibility. Mr. Glossip claimed below that his execution based solely
on Sneed’s bargained for, and now provably unreliable, testimony would
violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments."...Additionally, new evidence implicates the interrogation of Justin
Sneed. Dr. Richard Leo, Ph.D., J.D., is the national, leading expert on
police-induced false confessions and erroneous convictions. After
reviewing Mr. Glossip’s case, based on decades of social science
research, he concluded that law enforcement in this case used the
“personal and situational factors associated with, and believed to
cause, false confessions.” See Dr. Richard Leo report, App. B... Donald Knight, one of Glossip’s lawyers, observed in today’s press release: “This case splintered the Court of Criminal Appeals — a 3-2 vote. Two
Judges believed a further stay of execution and a hearing on innocence
was required on the facts. We should all be deeply concerned about an
execution under such circumstances..." Knight’s team of lawyers seeking to present Glossip’s execution includes Kathleen Lord and Mark Olive."
http://city-sentinel.com/2015/09/richard-glossip-lawyers-submit-appeal-to-u-s-supreme-court/