Denny ross 2004 trial

Ross also is appealing his mistrial four years ago in the slaying of Hannah Hill and is awaiting a federal court ruling on whether he will be retried for her rape and murder. Hill, a friend of Ross, was raped and strangled and her body was put in the trunk of her car shortly after leaving Ross' apartment. He admitted some sexual contact with Hill, but denied harming her. Ross was tried in the slaying in October , but a mistrial was declared during jury deliberations and jurors were dismissed.

A judge later learned that jurors had reached and signed not-guilty verdicts of aggravated murder, murder and rape. Ross' lawyers have argued that retrying him would be double jeopardy.

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Related Law Firms:. Creating an Exceptional Paralegal Cover Letter. The Choices of Practice in Law. As a result of that, when police received a call about an abandoned car two days later, they did not connect the car with Hannah's disappearance.

The abandoned car was Hannah's car and police issued it with a parking ticket. A few days later, police asked the media to notify the public that Hannah was missing. As soon as they did, police received a number of tips from the public and the tips were in relation to the abandoned car. One week after Hannah went missing, on the 26th of May, police went back to the abandoned car. They opened the trunk of the car and found Hannah's body inside.

She was naked from the waist down, and her bra was exposed. Her knees were bent and apart such that her genitals were on display when the police opened the trunk. Police needed to establish where Hannah went after she left the house the night of the 19th of May. They spoke to her boyfriend, nineteen year old Brad O'Born. Before Hannah's body was found, Brad contacted the police to ask them what they were doing to find his girlfriend.

When they met him, he had scratches on him. He told them he argued with Hannah a few days before she went missing. Due to that, when Hannah's body was found, he was one of the first people that police spoke to. They discovered that Brad had verbally and physically abused Hannah in the past.

But despite those revelations, there was nothing that indicated that he had any involvement in Hannah's death. The Autopsy revealed that Hannah had been beaten and strangled. The cause of death was determined as "asphyxia by manual compression.

There was evidence that Hannah had sex prior to her death but it could not be determined whether it was consensual or not as there were no vaginal tears. However, due to the condition Hannah's body was in when found and how it was posed in a sexual manner, police believed that she had been raped.

White residue was found on her lip and a bite mark on her arm. The investigation into Hannah's death led police to Denny Ross. Police knew Denny. He had sold cocaine to police informants and pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking. He was given probation instead of being sentenced to a term in prison. When police spoke to Denny at his apartment, he was wearing a cast at the time.

He told police that he broke his arm in a fight. He became a person of interest based on Hannah's phone records. Denny and Hannah were not good friend but they knew each other. Hannah had been to many parties that had taken place at Denny's apartment. When Hannah was missing, her friends asked Denny if he had heard from Hannah.

He said no. But when police spoke to him, he admitted that he saw Hannah the night she went missing. According to Denny, Hannah arrived at his apartment at 11pm the night of the 19th of May. He said that she was upset about Brad. He told police they kissed and stuff but that she left after midnight and he did not see or hear from her after that. As police had discovered that Hannah was there the night she went missing, they obtained a search warrant for his apartment. Police searched his home during the early morning hours of the 27th of May and found a garbage bag outside one of the windows.

Tittle said she was so afraid that instead of calling at that point, she called her boyfriend. He called police from Ironton to get an ambulance. After her release from the hospital, Tittle stayed with her mother in Springfield Township, she said.

I saw what happened. On cross-examination, lead defense counsel Roger Synenberg asked Tittle just two sets of questions. Synenberg then wrote two dates — May 19, , and May 20, — on the courtroom television monitor. The defense rested 30 minutes later, after calling only two witnesses for testimony about county and police records not directly related to the night, May 19, , when prosecutors theorize Hill was murdered.

Hunter told attorneys from both sides, out of earshot of the jury, that she has compiled nine legal pads of notes taken at the bench during the six-week trial.