Judge overturns conviction of death-row inmate

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

The conviction of a man incarcerated on Ohio’s death row for decades has been overturned by a federal judge who said new evidence would likely result in a jury acquitting the man of brutally killing his 6-month-old daughter.

U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus ruled last month that prosecutors have 180 days to grant 46-year-old Genesis Hill a new trial or release him from prison, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported .

The new evidence includes a 2016 affidavit from a forensic pathologist who testified at Hill’s 1991 trial in Cincinnati that indicates the death of Domika Hill was an accident, not murder. Sargus wrote than Amy Martin, the Hamilton County deputy coroner who conducted Domika’s autopsy, had made “significant revisions to the expert opinion she offered at trial.”