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Clarence
David HILL
Classification: Murderer?
Characteristics: Exonerated
by DNA analysis
Number of victims: 1 ?
Date of murder:
June 18,
1989
Date of birth: July
25,
1948
Victim profile: Dale
Edmundson(his
landlord)
Method of murder:Poured paint thinner on the victim and set
on fire
Location: Mohave Valley, Arizona, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on June 5, 1990. Overturned.
Plead “No contest” to the charges and released with time served
on October 12, 2005
Date of Birth: July 25,
1948
Defendant: Caucasian
Victim: Caucasian
Hill lived in a small motor home
on Dale Edmundson's property in Mohave Valley.
Early in the morning of June 18,
1989, Hill was drinking with Edmundson in Edmundson's home. Hill hit
Edmundson over the head with a blunt object, wrapped him in a blanket,
and then drove him to a desert area. Hill put the still living Edmundson
on the ground and poured paint thinner on him. He then set Edmundson on
fire and left him to die. Police discovered the still burning body at
5:00 a.m.
PROCEEDINGS
Presiding Judge: Leonard C. Langford
Prosecutor: John S. Taylor
Start of Trial: December 5, 1989
Verdict: December 29, 1989
Sentencing: June 5, 1990
Aggravating Circumstances:
Prior conviction involving violence
Pecuniary gain
Especially heinous/cruel/depraved
Mitigating Circumstances:
None sufficient to call for leniency
PUBLISHED OPINIONS
State v. Hill, 174 Ariz. 313, 848 P.2d 1375 (1993).
Clarence David Hill - Released
from Death Row!
October 12, 2005
Clarence David Hill, who has been on Death Row for 15 years for the
murder of his Bullhead City, Arizona landlord, was released from Mohave
County jail at approx. 5:00p.m. Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005.
Recent DNA testing found that the victims blood was not the blood
found on Hill's clothing and on a bed sheet.
"It is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have
convicted Mr. Hill in light of the present DNA evidence," Judge Richard
Weiss of Mohave County Superior Court wrote in an April 14 ruling to
overturn Hill's conviction.
After 6 months of the DA trying to figure out how they were going to
deal with this new evidence (without admitting they convicted the wrong
man). They brought Mr. Hill back to Mohave County and today (Wednesday)
they “let” him plead “No contest” to the charges and released him with
time served.
Because of his ill health Mr. Hill accepted the deal.
