Friday, June 09, 2023

Richard Glossip: Little Credibility within His Supporters

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
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?
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2023/05/rep-mcdugle-total-blank-on-richard.html
 
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
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2023/04/full-rebuttal-of-sir-richard-branson.html 

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.
 
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/
 
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 
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2022/09/does-truth-matter-sr-prejean-church-and.html 
 
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),
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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Media Disaster: ProPublica: Another Richard Glossip Disaster

 8/2/2022 5:15:54 AM Central Standard Time, sharpjfa@aol.com writes:

To: ProPublica
 
BCC:  Governor Kevin Stitt
Oklahoma Legislators and staff
Attorney General  John O’Connor and staff
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Pardon and Parole Board
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Catholic Conference of Oklahoma
 
RE: Criminal Justice:"Richard Glossip Has Eaten Three Last Meals on Death Row. Years Later, the State Is Still Trying to Execute Him, Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, July 24, 2022
 
From:  Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
 
A few things that avoided investigation, explanation and/or context, within the article, with an interesting twist.
 
Ziva is the quote from the referenced article/journalist, with Sharp my reply.
 
1) Ziva: "They’re (25 inmates) scheduled to die at a fast clip — about one each month through December 2024 — a rate that would eclipse the number of executions by all states combined since 2020."
 
Sharp: On average, the 25 will be executed after 20 years on death row - a very slow snail's pace. Many will have additional stays of execution, as well, making the average longer. Not in the story.
 
Of those 25, the shortest period of time, on death row, prior to execution, could be 13 years.
 
Since 1976, Virginia has executed 113 murderers, within 7 years of appeals, on average. How? Responsible judges.
 
None in the story.
 
2) Ziva: " Many observers, including those who support the death penalty, doubt the state’s ability to carry out executions in a constitutional manner . . . " "If the past is any judge, they’re probably right."
 
Sharp: Since 1976, the past details that Oklahoma has, constitutionally, executed 116 murderers. The executions of Lockett and Warner were, fully, irresponsible. That's 2 out of 116, making Ziva's presumption possible, but without merit.
 
The probability would be more likely to fall on the side of the 98.3%  (114 inmates) than on the 1.7% (2 inmates).
 
3)  Ziva: " Grant convulsed and vomited during the process (lethal injection execution).
 
Sharp: Ziva left out, as did all journalists, whose stories I read, that such are the well known and normal side effects of the drugs used, as well as for an overdose of the drugs used. Found with the easiest of fact checking, as could have been the reporting of that fact checking, but was not. Incurious?

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Richard Glossip: Little Credibility with His Supporters 
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4)  Ziva: “I’m 99% sure that (Glossip) is not guilty sitting on death row,” state Rep. Kevin McDugle said in an interview with ProPublica."
 
Sharp: Oddly, McDugle wrote an op/ed "I believe Richard Glossip is innocent. This is why" (The Oklahoman, June 26, 2022). He provided zero evidence of innocence. Why? Rather important.
 
"In their rush to build a compelling narrative of an innocent man about to be executed, some journalists who should know better have been remarkably incurious." ZIVA BRANSTETTER, 8/29/2015 (1)
 
Yep, same Ziva.

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The Death Penalty: A Repudiation of Journalism, by Journalists?
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5) Ziva: " (US Supreme Court) Justice Stephen Breyer argued that the death penalty was no longer constitutional  . . .  (citing) studies showing death penalty crimes have a disproportionately high exoneration rate."
 
Sharp: Absurd. Studies show that the death row "exoneration" claims are 71-83% false, meaning that the actual innocent cases represent from 0.3-0.5% of death row and they have all been released, very likely the most accurate of sanctions, considering the actually innocent found and released, after 50 years of detailed review (3).
 
Breyer (and Ziva?), seemingly, have no clue. How (3)? Incurious?
 
About 45% of death row inmates are removed from death row by appeals or commutation.  How many of the actual innocents are removed from death row prior to a finding of actual innocence? Curious?
 
6) Ziva: "(Oklahoma) lawmakers commissioned a review by a law firm which found: " . . . that Glossip’s 2004 conviction “cannot be relied on to support a murder-for-hire conviction. Nor can it provide a basis for the government to take the life of Richard E. Glossip.”
 
Sharp: Ziva did not review all of the findings, from the law firm, that had already been reviewed and rejected by the courts. Did Ziva  not, already, know (1,2)?
 
Nor did Ziva tell us that the law firm is not objective,  very anti-death penalty. It's like having a trial and hearing only one side. Pretty important.
 
Likely, this journalist may be helpful (1). And this (2).
 
Sharp: Since the January. 8, 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese, Glossip had  17 years  t0 prepare for his 2014 clemency hearing:
 
"Board members asked Glossip why he lied to police about (Barry Alan) Van Treese’s whereabouts after he was made aware by Sneed that Sneed had killed their boss. Glossip said at first he did not believe Sneed, but he was unable to give the board a reason as to why he did not report the crime to police." (4)
 
Very hard to overcome that actual fact, not mentioned in any of the recent articles, which all, showed no proof of actual innocence for Glossip.
 
Left out by Ziva.
 
7) Ziva interviewed Sister Helen Prejean, who stated: " You go to the public and you raise questions.”
 
Sharp: Exactly. Why did Ziva not tell the readers important facts or review the many false claims of Prejean (5). Why? No anti death penalty reporter or organization cares to expose that and will not. It's the norm.
 
Just incurious investigative reporting.
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FN - Be sure to read fn 1 and 2
 
00)  Medis Disasters & The Death Penalty
 
1)  Skepticism, key details missing from stories on Glossip case, ZIVA BRANSTETTER, The Frontier, Aug 29 2015
https://www.readfrontier.org/key-details-missing-from-stories-on-glossip-case/
 
2)  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/
 
3)  The Death Row "Exonerated"/"Innocent" Frauds 
 71-83% Error Rate in Death Row "Innocent" Claims, Well Known Since 2000
 
4) "Clemency denied for Oklahoma man sentenced to death for role in murder" Graham Lee Brewer, The Oklahoman, Oct 25, 2014
 
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600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
http://prodpquotes.info/ 
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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.
 
The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
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Partial CV
 
 
bcc: Churches throughout Oklahoma
Oklahoma Baptist Convention
Oklahoma Faith Network
OKLAHOMA STATE COUNCIL FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES
Archdiocese of Oklahoma City
Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma
Catholic Conference of Oklahoma
Hope For Generations
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