Thursday, September 22, 2016
WARREN
A filing by attorneys for Danny Lee Hill, 49, says the judge considering a possible retrial for the death-row inmate has indicated she will deny the request.
The filing by attorneys Sarah R. Kostick and Vicky Ruth Adams Werneke renews their request to Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove for a hearing on the question.
Judge Cosgrove is a visiting judge hearing the case on assignment from the Ohio Supreme Court.
The Wednesday filing says Judge Cosgrove told the parties in an Aug. 8 telephone conference that she would have a hearing next Thursday and Sept. 30 to hear evidence on the motion for new trial.
But it adds that Aug. 17 Judge Cosgrove told the parties by telephone that the hearing was “revoked,” and she would issue an opinion on whether to grant a new trial shortly.
Hill and another defendant, Timothy Combs, were convicted of raping, torturing and burning Raymond Fife, 12, in a wooded area along Palmyra Road on Sept. 10, 1985, as Raymond rode his bicycle to a Boy Scout meeting. Raymond died two days later from his injuries. An expert witness said the bite marks were made by Hill.
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