State v. Ross

Dickinson, Judge.

INTRODUCTION

{¶ 1} It’s now been over ten years since someone murdered Hanna Hill, put her partly naked body in the trunk of her car, and parked that car in an Akron neighborhood. Denny Ross was indicted and tried for aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping, rape, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. His trial ended in a mistrial and confusion. Within a week following the mistrial, he moved for, among other things, acquittal on the rape charge, arguing that the state had failed to present sufficient evidence at the trial on that charge. A *176visiting judge, appointed…