Glossip v. Oklahoma

Glossip v. Oklahoma
Glossip v. Oklahoma
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 9, 2024; Decided February 25, 2025
Full case name	Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma
Docket nos.	22-7466; 22-6500; 22A941
Citations	604 U.S. ___ (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Case history
Prior	Glossip v. State, 529 P.3d 218 (Okla. Crim. App. 2023)
Questions presented
	1. Whether the State's suppression of the key prosecution witness's admission that he was under psychiatric care and failure to correct that witness's false testimony about that care and related diagnosis violate due process.; 2. Whether the entirety of the suppressed evidence must be considered when assessing the materiality of Brady and Napue claims.; 3. Whether due process requires reversal when a capital conviction is so erroneous that the State no longer seeks to defend it.; 4. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' holding that the Oklahoma Post-Conviction Procedure Act precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and independent state ground for the judgment.
Holding
	1. This Court has jurisdiction to review the OCCA’s judgment.; 2. The prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan; Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh; Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Jackson; Barrett (Part II)
Concur/dissent	Barrett
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Alito; Barrett (Parts IV-A-1, IV-A-2, and IV-A-3)
	Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV; Oklahoma Post Conviction Procedure Act

Glossip v. Oklahoma, 604 U.S. ___ (2025), is a United States Supreme Court case. The Court decided that, in light of newly disclosed evidence and the state attorney general's confession of error, Richard Glossip should receive a new trial.

Glossip v. Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 9, 2024 Decided February 25, 2025
Full case name	Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma
Docket nos.	22-7466 22-6500 22A941
Citations	604 U.S. ___ (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Case history
Prior	Glossip v. State, 529 P.3d 218 (Okla. Crim. App. 2023)
Questions presented
1. Whether the State's suppression of the key prosecution witness's admission that he was under psychiatric care and failure to correct that witness's false testimony about that care and related diagnosis violate due process. 2. Whether the entirety of the suppressed evidence must be considered when assessing the materiality of Brady and Napue claims. 3. Whether due process requires reversal when a capital conviction is so erroneous that the State no longer seeks to defend it. 4. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' holding that the Oklahoma Post-Conviction Procedure Act precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and independent state ground for the judgment.
Holding
1. This Court has jurisdiction to review the OCCA’s judgment. 2. The prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Jackson; Barrett (Part II)
Concur/dissent	Barrett
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Alito; Barrett (Parts IV-A-1, IV-A-2, and IV-A-3)
Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV Oklahoma Post Conviction Procedure Act