CINCINNATI, Ohio - The warden of a state prison is arguing against an attempt to temporarily halt a federal appeal by the man convicted of killing a Warren Boy Scout forty years ago.

Tim Shoop, warden at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, has filed an objection to a request from Danny Lee Hill, who is currently appealing his 1986 conviction. Hill wants the court to pause his federal case so he can take a new legal claim back to the state court system first.

Hill’s underlying federal appeal is already focused on challenging the reliability of bite-mark evidence used to convict him in the 1985 murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife in Warren.

The new claim prompting his request for a pause is based on a newly obtained sworn statement from a woman named Terri Shellman. Hill’s attorneys

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