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Hill’s attorneys appeal
COLUMBUS
Attorneys for Danny Lee Hill have appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court a December decision by the Warren-based 11th District Court of Appeals that denied Hill a new trial.
The issue is whether Hill should get a new trial based on the unreliability of bite-mark evidence used at Hill’s 1986 Trumbull County trial.
Hill, 52, was sentenced to death for raping, torturing then killing Raymond Fife, 12, in 1985, in a wooded area off Palmyra Road Southwest in Warren.
Hill was also the subject of a Jan. 6 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that restored the possibility Hill will suffer the death penalty. That case, which pertains to whether Hill is too intellectually disabled to be executed, is pending with the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is ordered to issue a new ruling based on only relevant case law.