Citizen Report No. 1681249386 - 120747524

Patricia "Pattye" High

Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board

Date of Offense

October 10, 2014

Offense(s)

Bias

Supporting Document(s)

5th Supplemental Report - Reed Smith

Policy 123

Statement

Former Oklahoma Pardon & Parole Board member Patricia "Pattye" High (Oklahoma Bar #13414), failed to disclosure her prior working relationship with prosecutor Connie Smothermon and her former employ under Bob Macy during the time period the office was prosecuting Glossip.

Her failure to recuse from participation in the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board’s consideration of Richard Glossip’s Petition for Clemency filed on October 10, 2014 created a conflict of interest that deprived Richard Glossip of a fair hearing.

David E. Weiss of Reed Smith LLP, requested the professional opinion of Lawrence K. Hellman, Dean Emeritus of Oklahoma City University School of Law with the following response:

Hellman Response — Page 107 of the 5th Supplemental Report - Reed Smith

Also - "Policy 123 requires disclosure and recusal of any OPPB board member who is biased or prejudiced against or in favor of either party or either party’s attorney."

More State Officials connected to the Glossip case, See Also: John O'Connor, Scott Pruitt, Joshua L. Lockett, Jennifer Crabb, Jennifer Miller, Hon. Robert Hudson, Robert H. Macy, Wes Lane, Fern L. Smith, Connie Smothermon, Gary Ackley, David Prater

We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
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