June 10 (UPI) -- Oklahoma will seek a new murder trial for longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip but next round without the death penalty.
During a status hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse that the state's top prosecutor said it would pursue a new murder trial for Glossip after the nation's high court ordered it earlier this year in vacating Glossip's capital conviction.
"While it was clear to me and to the U.S. Supreme Court that Mr. Glossip did not receive a fair trial, I have never proclaimed his innocence," Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a release.
Glossip, 62, was twice convicted for the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese, who was Glossip's boss at an Oklahoma City motel.
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