Timothy Hancock resentencing:  Janice Morse has this article in the Cincinnati Enquirer, entitled "New jury to decide killer's fate; five years after conviction, man could still face death penalty," on the strange sentencing saga of Timothy Hancock, who was originally sentenced to life in prison, then death, ...and now?

Hancock was convicted of aggravated murder in Warren County Common Pleas Court for the Nov. 2000, slaying of Jason Wagner.  The jury recommended a death sentence; Judge Neal Bronson instead imposed a life sentence, after finding that evidence excluded from the penalty phase of the trial had found its way into the jury deliberation room.  After a state appellate court ruled in 2003 that the excluded evidence should have been allowed in the sentencing phase, Judge Bronson changed the sentence from life to death.  On appeal, the Ohio Supreme Court, in this Feb, 2006 opinion (42-page pdf), voided the death sentence, ruling that the state appeallate court erred in its ruling regarding the excluded penalty-phase evidence, and remanded the case back to Warren County Common Pleas Court, where a new sentencing proceeding is now underway.

UPDATE:  The Enquirer has coverage of Thursday's testimony in the Hancock resentencing proceeding here.