Professor Scott Sundby, the Robert C. Josefsberg Endowed Chair in Criminal Justice Advocacy, discussed the case of Glossip v. Oklahoma, which went before the United States Supreme Court in season 13, episode 10 of The Miami Law Explainer podcast. This was Glossip’s second trip to the Supreme Court; the first occurred in 2015 in connection with his method of execution challenge. Glossip has always maintained his innocence of the 1997 “murder for hire” crime that sent him to death row. The questions before the Court included whether the prosecution’s decision to suppress material information about their star witness—who actually committed the murder—and permit him to falsely testify in exchange for a plea deal violated due process. Listen to the podcast here.
Sundby teaches a variety of courses in the criminal law and procedure area. He began his teaching career at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He later moved to Washington & Lee Law School, where he was the Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law. While at W&L, at various points, he served as director of the Virginia Capital Clearinghouse, a clinic at W&L that advises lawyers appointed to represent capital defendants, and as director of the Frances Lewis Law Center. To obtain a prosecutor's viewpoint of the criminal justice system, Professor Sundby took a leave of absence from teaching during 1994-95 and prosecuted cases as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
