EDITED 7/23/2023
Please forward to Van Treese family
May 4, 2023
To: Speakers for Murderer Richard Glossip
Sister Helen Prejean (Glossip’s spiritual advisor), Sir Richard Branson, Andrew Coates (Dean of the U of Oklahoma Law School), Pastor John-Mark Hart, Fr. Stephen Hamilton, Rev. Don Heath, Minister Demetrius Minor, Rep. Kevin McDugle, Rep. JJ Humphrey and former Pardon and Parole Board chair, Adam Luck
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Governor Kevin Stitt
6) Two truths and a lie: What records, interviews reveal about Richard Glossip’s murder conviction, CARY ASPINWALl, The Frontier, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015, https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/two-truths-and-a-lie-what-records-interviews-reveal-about-richard-glossips-murder-conviction/
Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell
Oklahoma Legislators and staff
Attorney General Gentner Drummond and staff
OK Sec of State
OK Pardons and Paroles Board
OK Pardons and Paroles Services
OK Dept of Public Safety
OK Dept of Corrections
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
District Attorneys' Council
media throughout Oklahoma and CNHI Newspapers
bcc: Religious groups at bottom
RE: Richard Glossip: Little Credibility within His Supporters
compiled and written by Dudley Sharp
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, Houston, Texas, CV at bottom
Fact: Murderer Richard Glossip has lost every appeal for 19 years, rebutting Glossip's ignorant and/or lying supporters.
Why? It is a very common anti-death penalty playbook, within the "exonerated"/"innocence" claims for death row inmates, which has a 71-83% fraud/error rate, since 1973 (para 9a).
The lack of credibility by Glossip supporters mirrors so many other cases (para 9a-d), wherein media, as well, lacks credibility (herein and para 13). Why?
Enough is enough: It appears that this (para 14) may be the last legal rebuttal to Glossip's claims, prior to his execution, IF "enough is enough".
Please review:
1) Rep. McDugle is a Total Blank on Richard Glossip's "Actual Innocence" - Why?
Neither Rep. McDugle nor the 30 lawyer, 3000 page Report, by Reed Smith, has proof of Glossip's actual innocence. Why?
2) Final Report, Independent Investigation of State v. Richard E. Glossip, Reed Smith, LLP, June 7, 2022
a) "Unlike many cases in which the death penalty has been imposed, the evidence of petitioner’s (Glossip) guilt was not overwhelming.” (page 6, II. Executive Summary Of Investigation Findings)
Sharp: The report has zero evidence of innocence. Glossip's guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt, as per 24 unanimous jurors, within two trials and 19 years of appeals, 2004-2023, through state and federal courts. much more credible than a biased Reed Smith.
b) "Based on the findings of this independent investigation (the Report), including the State’s destruction of evidence, we conclude that the 2004 trial cannot be relied on to support a murder‐for‐hire conviction. " Reed Smith Report's Conclusion, page 259
Sharp: The report has zero evidence of Glossip's innocence. Anyone notice?
19 years of appeals, 2004-2023, through state and federal courts, have supported the murder‐for‐hire conviction. There is a reason for that.
3) Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments
A Glossip supporter. See how credible?
4) Andrew Coates is the Dean of the U of Oklahoma Law Schools. The question is "why?".
Coates wrote the following op/ed: "Facts matter. The Glossip case shows us why" Andrew M. Coats, Guest columnist. The Oklahoman, May 16, 2023
Coates did not fact check the Glossip case, prior to writing his op/ed. Why? Coates op/ed points are, completely, rebutted by the facts. How did that happen?
Read Coates' op/ed, then read:
The BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF VICTIM FAMILY MEMBERS DEREK VAN TREESE, DONNA VAN TREESE, AND ALANA MILETO, AND THE OKLAHOMA DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION IN OPPOSITION TO THE PETITION (para 14, below).
Why? It fully refutes Coates' op/ed "facts".
5) Glossip & The Innocence Fallacies of Adam Luck
Sharp: Luck was in error on every point . . . inexcusable for a once Ok Pardons and Parole Board member.
Sharp: Responsible journalism matters.
7) Skepticism, key details missing from stories on Glossip case, ZIVA BRANSTETTER, The Frontier, AUGUST 29, 2015, HTTPS://WWW.READFRONTIER.ORG/KEY-DETAILS-MISSING-FROM-STORIES-ON-GLOSSIP-CASE
Sharp: Responsible journalism matters, yet Ziva forgot her own article, just above, which was critical of horrendous, irresponsible reporting, followed by her horrendous, irresponsible reporting, just below, for which we had a preview in her 2015 article, as she failed to fact check/vet the well known DPIC's error/fraud of the 150 "exonerated" from death row (para 7):
8) ProPublica: Another Richard Glossip Disaster
9) a) The Death Row "Exonerated"/"Innocent" Frauds
71-83% Error Rate in Death Row "Innocent" Claims, Well Known Since 2000
Sharp: Similar mis-direction, deception and/or lying cases by anti-death penalty folks:
9 b) Gary Graham: HOLLYWOOD, MURDER and TEXAS:
Lying & Death Row "Innocents": A Case Study
9 c) Troy Davis & The Innocent Frauds of the anti-death penalty lobby
9 d) Does Truth Matter? Sr. Prejean, The Church & U of Notre Dame
and on and on and on
10) Rev. Don Heath, President Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (OCADP)
Sharp: Full rebuttal of OCADP
Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of anyone within a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
11) Sister Helen Prejean: Her Lies, Deceptions and/or Astounding Willful Ignorance? - A Compilation
12) a) Rebuttal: DEMETRIUS MINOR, Conservatives Concerned About The Death Penalty
and
b) Full Rebuttal: Hannah Cox, National Manager,
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCADP),
Comment Section, August 20, 2019
https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/ep-51-hannah-cox-tells-conservatives-why-they-should-oppose-death-penalty/
https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/ep-51-hannah-cox-tells-conservatives-why-they-should-oppose-death-penalty/
or
13) Search Results for "Media Disaster", detailing, w/sources, about 20 error filled death penalty articles, showing no fact checking, nor vetting nor critical thinking. It could be thousands, if I had the time. Just click on any of the articles.
14) BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF VICTIM FAMILY MEMBERS DEREK VAN TREESE, DONNA VAN TREESE, AND ALANA MILETO, AND THE OKLAHOMA DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION IN OPPOSITION TO THE PETITION:
No. 22-7466 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States RICHARD GLOSSIP, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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