An appeals court hears arguments later this month on whether a man can face the death penalty in his retrial in the murder of a woman whose body was found in a central Pennsylvania park a decade ago.
Forty-two-year-old Paul Aaron Ross is charged in Blair County in the June 2004 murder of 26-year-old Tina Miller, whose body was found partially submerged and bound with duct tape at Canoe Creek State Park.
The Altoona Mirror reports that a Superior Court panel hears defense arguments Feb. 25 that jurors couldn't agree in 2005 whether Ross deserved execution, so prosecutors should be barred from seeking that.
Ross was granted a new trial after his attorney argued that he didn't have enough time to prepare his defense for the first trial.
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