Danny Lee Hill's lawyers respond to state motion to strike a new trial

WARREN — Attorneys for Danny Lee Hill, who sits on death row for killing 12-year-old Raymond Fife in 1985, responded today to the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office and its motion to strike Hill’s entire 419-page request for a new trial.

Prosecutors said it should be stricken because so much of it related to matters that have “nothing to do with bite marks” found on the boy’s privates. Prosecutors say the bite-mark evidence is the only thing appropriate for Hill to use in its request for a new trial.

Hill’s 419 pages included arguments related to Hill’s mental abilities, interrogations of Hill by investigators, and whether it was reasonable for testimony to be presented in the 1986 trial indicating that a specific stick found near the attack and injuries on Raymond’s body had characteristics like a “key in a lock.”

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