WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) –The Ohio 11th District Court of Appeals affirmed the opinion of a Trumbull County Common Pleas judge who dismissed the petition for postconviction relief for a death row inmate on Tuesday.
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David Martin, 40, was sentenced to death by Judge Andrew D. Logan in September 2014 after a jury found him guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
Martin was convicted of the Sept. 27, 2012, execution-style murder of Jeremy Cole, 21, during an attempted robbery at an Oak Circle SW, Warren home. A 30-year-old woman was shot in the head during the attack and has since recovered from her wounds.
Martin was also convicted after being one of three Trumbull County jail inmates responsible for taking a corrections officer hostage in April 2014 while he was awaiting trial, according to the prosecutor’s office…