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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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After spending nearly three decades on Ohio's death row, Elwood Jones finally got a new day in court -- which resulted in his conviction being overturned. Here we explore why prosecutors maintain that Jones is a "murderous bastard" who will kill again, and what will happen next in this politically sensitive murder case.
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0:00.0 | Previously I'm accused. |
0:07.0 | It may refer to me to the death hospital to see a surgeon. |
0:14.0 | Also suspicious, Elwood Jones told doctors that he cut his hand on the trash dumpster, |
0:20.0 | but later he told co-workers he cut it on some metal stairs. |
0:25.0 | Sometimes this kind of wound occurs when one person punches another in the mouth. |
0:29.0 | They don't always get infected, but every fight should be washed out because the risk of infection is still high. |
0:37.0 | You know the problem with stuff like that where someone decides like, oh I've determined that this is what it is. |
0:43.0 | There's no like external feedback to ever validate that. |
0:46.0 | You know it's just like he, he's like, I've never been wrong, but like that's because like you don't, |
0:51.0 | there's nobody who like knows the truth who can tell you if you're wrong. |
0:59.0 | For three days in late August 2022, lawyers argued morning through afternoon about whether Elwood Jones was guilty of murdering Rodinathan in 1994. |
1:14.0 | Well at least Jones's lawyers argued over his guilt. They said things like, |
1:19.0 | and Elwood has spent over 9,000 days in custody for a crime he did not commit. |
1:24.0 | He deserves a new trial. |
1:26.0 | And the Blue Ash Police Department and the Hamilton County Cross-of-Huters Office worked in tandem with one another to concoct a narrative that they knew was false. |
1:39.0 | Those were the voices of lawyers Jay Clark and David Hine respectively who have been representing Elwood Jones, |
1:46.0 | and also known in his efforts to get a new trial. Jones you might remember was convicted of killing Rodinathan in her embassy suite's hotel room in Blue Ash Ohio, |
1:56.0 | a Cincinnati suburb. The bulk of Clark and Hines arguments during that three day hearing before Hamilton County Circuit Judge Wendy Cross centered on the fact that prosecutors didn't turn over more than 4,000 documents to Jones's original defense lawyers. |
2:11.0 | Those documents included hundreds of pages of questionnaires with hotel guests who reported seeing what they deemed as suspicious behavior in and near the hotel before and during the 30 minute window in which Frodo was killed. |
2:25.0 | And this mattered, Hine said because... |
2:41.0 | ...that was a lie. We know that. They told the jury that they couldn't find anyone who saw anything unusual that they had the hotel. |
2:49.0 | That was an abject lie. There were hundreds of pages of questionnaires responded provided by guests to the hotel who had mirrored things to tell them, |
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