Louis Mann mitigation hearing underway

WARREN — The jury that convicted last week Louis Mann of killing his parents today began hearing reasons why he should or shouldn’t be put to death for the crimes.

Chris Becker, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, said Mann’s attorneys will present information over the next couple days indicating that he suffered sexual abuse from his father, but the testimony from two psychologists will be based only on what Louis Mann told them.

“You won’t hear from any relatives” of Louis Mann, 33, Frances Mann, 53, and Phillip Mann, 59, Becker said. “Did they talk to anybody else?” Becker asked the jury.

The two psychologists indicated in six large volumes of documents that Louis Mann had threatened to kill three people before killing his parents two years ago, but the psychologists will “gloss over” those incidents, Becker said.

And despite the hundred or more times Louis Mann sought medical care for numerous ailments, and the couple of times he attempted suicide, he never mentioned sexual abuse, Becker said.

Matt Pentz, one of the lawyers from the Ohio Public Defender’s Office representing Mann, said he expected to show that his client shouldn’t “be thrown out on the executioner’s table” but is “capable of redemption in prison the rest of his life.”

The jury could decide on death Mann or life in prison with either no parole or possible parole after 25 or 30 years.

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