. >> reporter: convicted by a jury in oklahoma for organizing the 1997 killing of his boss, barry van treece, he has always maintained his innocence. >> did you have anything to do with the murder of barry van treece? >> i did not. >> reporter: independent reviews of the case commissioned by state officials finding the prosecution destroyed key evidence before the trial and failed to correct false testimony from a key witness, prompting a rare concession from oklahoma's attorney general that glossup's conviction should be overturned. lester sitting down in 2023 with two conservative lawmakers fighting on glossup's behalf. just as news broke that the supreme court had agreed to hear the case and stop glossup's execution. >> yes! >> awesome, awesome! >> reporter: the justices, included in a divided d opinion that think violated. >> it will clearly show that gloss up is guilty. >> reporter: they've formed a committee to review any evidence. back to you. >>> another round of snow and rain moving across the midwest this morning. let's turn to angie lassman who is tracking the systems for us. for

plus the family members of the victim, in this case, barry van treece, they're going to be in talks to case should go forward, whether there's going to be a retrial. and, of course, all of this in the context of richard glossip having been on death row since 1998. so more than 25 years he's been. >> on death row. >> several times. >> during that time. >> he's been at close proximity to being executed. >> he's had. >> his last meals several times. so these are all probably factors that they might also take into account when deciding whether this case should go to another retrial and potentially another death penalty conviction. >> is he someone who has always proclaimed his innocence? >> that's right. >> he has claimed innocence, although in this case at the supreme court, that was not the issue that the court was deciding. the very interesting thing about this case was that the attorney general of oklahoma, who's a republican, actually had agreed with richard glossip that there were problems with his trial, focused on some testimony from one of the witnesses, the key witness in the cas