The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an Oklahoma death row inmate’s conviction saying prosecutors withheld crucial evidence during his murder trial, but a legal expert says the rare move shouldn’t be interpreted as any kind of shift by the highest court on death penalty cases.

The nation's highest court reversed a lower court's ruling that had upheld death row inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction and allowed his planned execution to move forward.

In a 5-3 decision, the justices found that Glossip’s trial violated his “constitutional obligation to correct false testimony” and that “Glossip is entitled to a new trial,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority opinion.

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