Ohio high court: No hearing for death row inmate

COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request to present more evidence he says could have changed the outcome of his trial.

Romell Broom, 53, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Sept. 15 for the rape and stabbing death of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in Cleveland in 1984.

The high court rejected today a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed a hearing to consider whether investigators shielded records. Among the evidence Broom says the state failed to disclose is that Middleton and two witnesses used illegal drugs and had a habit of lying.

Prosecutors say a federal judge already has ruled that the evidence would not have made a difference at trial.