STATE v. HANCOCK

No. 2003-2099.

108 Ohio St.3d 57 (2006)

2006-Ohio-160

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

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided February 1, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Bodiker, Ohio Public Defender, Joseph E. Wilhelm, Chief Counsel, Death Penalty Division, and Kelly L. Culshaw, Supervisor, Death Penalty Division, for appellant.

Rachel Hutzel, Warren County Prosecuting Attorney, and Andrew L. Sievers and Mary K. Hand, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellee.


MOYER, C.J.

{¶ 1} Appellant, Timothy Hancock, was an inmate at the Warren Correctional Institution in Lebanon, Ohio, serving a life sentence for a 1990 aggravated-murder conviction. On November 13, 2000, within hours after Jason Wagner became Hancock's cellmate, Hancock strangled him to death. Hancock appeals his aggravated-murder conviction and his death sentence.

The Murder of Jason Wagner

{¶ 2}...

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