Sunday, September 27, 2015
Bulletin: Richard Glossip; Oklahoma; The plot thickens: "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."..."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."
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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.”
