Catch-up two: Danny Lee Hill: Ohio: Bulletin: Defence team cites 'bite-mark' evidence in response to Hill's recent state bid to strike the defense's motion for a new trial for Hill who has been on death row since 1986. " In its recent motion, counsel for Hill provided an outline of the case it intends to present at any potential hearing for a new trial, including: l Introducing evidence showing the injury to Fife's body was not a human bite mark; l The field of bite mark comparison, used by state's expert witnesses, is scientifically invalid, unreliable and inadmissible; l The statements Hill made to the police at the time of the murder were coerced and can't be used to support the state's contention a stick was used to assault Fife; l Because Hill is "intellectually disabled," the police tactics violated his rights." Tribune Chronicle;

"The defense team for convicted killer Danny Lee Hill Monday filed a response to a recent state bid to strike the defense's motion for a new trial for the man who has been on death row since 1986.
Attorneys for Hill filed a nine-page document with the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas saying its motion for new trial is "anchored in the bite mark evidence." The document refuted the state's motion to strike, authored by Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and assistant Prosecutor LuWayne Annos, which claimed defense counsel manufactured the new bite mark evidence. Visiting Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove had scheduled an Aug. 3 teleconference to rule on the motions. In its recent motion, counsel for Hill provided an outline of the case it intends to present at any potential hearing for a new trial, including: l Introducing evidence showing the injury to Fife's body was not a human bite mark; l The field of bite mark comparison, used by state's expert witnesses, is scientifically invalid, unreliable and inadmissible; l The statements Hill made to the police at the time of the murder were coerced and can't be used to support the state's contention a stick was used to assault Fife; l Because Hill is "intellectually disabled," the police tactics violated his rights. The state in its motions has maintained Hill is "no innocent man. The record and the facts show he will always remain guilty," the state motions stated. In January 1986, Hill was convicted by a three-judge panel and later sentenced to death for his part in the torture, rape and brutal fatal attack on 12-year-old Raymond Fife the year before. Cosgrove earlier this month ruled Hill's defense team could ask for a new trial because the defendant was "unavoidably prevented" from filing a motion seeking a new proceeding within 120 days of his 1986 conviction..........At a Dec. 21, 2015, hearing before Cosgrove in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, Hill's defense team presented two witnesses to explain why Hill was prevented from using newly discovered bite mark evidence in a timely manner.Watkins and Annos said the lengthy defense motion has "absolutely nothing to do with bite marks."
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See post on hearing set for August 3, 2016, at the link below;  "The judge also set another teleconference for Aug. 3 in the case that has seen Hill sit on death row for more than three decades. Hill was convicted by a three judge panel in January 1986 and later sentenced to death for his part in the torture, rape and brutal fatal attack on 12-year-old Raymond Fife the year before. Cosgrove earlier this month ruled Hill's defense team could ask for a new trial because the defendant was "unavoidably prevented" from filing a motion seeking a new proceeding within 120 days of his 1986 conviction.Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and assistant Prosecutor LuWayne Annos responded to that 418-page defense motion with a sharply worded 11-page motion of their own that concluded Hill "is no innocent man. The record and the facts show he will always remain guilty.""


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