STATE v. HILL

No. 00-591.

92 Ohio St.3d 191 (2001)

THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. HILL, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided July 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Landefeld, Fairfield County Prosecuting Attorney, and Gregg Marx, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant.

Carol A. Wright; Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP, James E. Phillips and Timothy W. Hoover, for appellee.

Dan Gattermeyer, Butler County Prosecuting Attorney, and Daniel G. Eichel, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz P.L.L. and James B. Rosenthal; Raymond Vasvari, urging affirmance for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Inc.

Baker & Hostetler LLP, David L. Marburger and Gina A Brickley, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Coalition for Open Government.

Lucy Dalglish, Gregg Leslie and Ashley Gauthier; Cohn & Marks, Richard Schmidt and Kevin M. Goldberg; Baker & Hostetler LLP, Bruce W. Sanford, Robert D. Lystad and Bruce D. Brown, urging affirmance for amici curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, American Society of Newspaper Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists.


ALICE ROBIE RESNICK, J.

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Facts and Procedural History

On September 15, 1997, Harry Sisco was shot and killed in front of his home on South Broad Street in Lancaster, Ohio. Defendant-appellee, Clifton Hill, the stepson of Harry Sisco, was indicted on September 25, 1997, on one count of aggravated murder with two firearms specifications, one count of grand theft of a motor vehicle, one...

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