Ohio Supreme Court to look at lower court ruling on murderer Danny Lee Hill case

Danny Lee Hill

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear the 11th District Court of Appeals decision requiring another hearing on convicted murderer Danny Lee Hill's intellectual disability claim on Tuesday. 

The court has agreed to hear the appeal filed by the Ohio Solicitor General with the Ohio Attorney General's office to review the lower court's decision from May, which ruled that Hill was present during the attack but "cannot be seriously questioned."

This is the latest in an ongoing court battle over Hill's competency after killing 12-year-old Raymond Fife in Warren in 1985. 

Fife was headed to a Boy Scout meeting when Hill kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered on the city's southwest side. Hill was sentenced to death in the killing Fife and has been on death row for 38 years. 

Hill has had nearly 30 appeals in the case and in May, the Supreme Court declined to review the decision of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to deny Danny Lee Hill a new hearing based off of "newly-discovered evidence" relating to a bite mark.