State v. Hill

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Danny Lee Hill, appeals the decisions of the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas to deny his Motion for New Trial without hearing and to deny his Motion to Disqualify the Office of the Trumbull County Prosecutor. The issues before this court are whether a trial court may strike portions of a motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence that exceeded the scope of the court's order granting leave to file the motion for new trial; whether the doctrines of res judicata and law of the case may be applied in analyzing the merits of a motion for new trial;…