'It's going to be difficult': Legal analyst weighs in on Richard Glossip retrial

A Supreme Court decision to overturn the conviction of Richard Glossip in a 1997 murder case does not leave a clear path forward for prosecutors.

The decision allows an opportunity for prosecutors to try Glossip a third time.

News 9 legal analyst Irven Box said there's challenges in the road ahead.

Q: What makes trying the case again difficult?

A: Prosecutors, in a sense, travel back in time to make a case for a crime that happened so long ago, Box explained.

"It's going to be difficult to reconstruct the case to get together the evidence, the witnesses," he said.

Governor Stitt seemed to agree, as he told reporters in a news conference on Wednesday, "It's hard to find witnesses and things from 25 years ago."

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Q: What happens to the evidence?

A: Box said, when many years pass, evidence sometimes loses its quality. Especially cases that pre-date digital litigation files, and digital cameras.

"There is evidence loss," Box said, speaking in general about cases as they age. "There's things that are misplaced. Then, as far as if there's DNA evidence of things that have not been tested, we're talking about a time in between, really, the scientific process, and keeping up with the DNA and doing all that. This was before that. So, it's going to be a difficult thing for a prosecutor to come back in and go through all that evidence."

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Oklahoma County's District Attorney has not yet made any assurances about if and how the case would be retried. However, there are indications Attorney General Gentner Drummond will be heavily involved in the effort. DA Vicki Behenna said in a statement on Tuesday that she and Drummond had already started a conversation on "next steps."

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