The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review an Oklahoma death row inmate's claim that prosecutorial misconduct led to his wrongful conviction of a 1997 murder of an Oklahoma City motel owner.
A group of renowned legal ethics scholars has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of an Oklahoma death row inmate whose murder conviction has been deemed by the state's attorney general to be plagued by errors and possible prosecutorial misconduct, court filings show.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted the looming execution of an Oklahoma man after the state's attorney general conceded his murder conviction was riddled with constitutional errors and possible prosecutorial misconduct.