![]() Snipes's leg was draped across the bed, a pair of pantyhose tied her ankle to the bed leg, and a white plastic chair was on top of her body. Defendant then made another 911 call telling the police to return to the apartment building and provided further instructions on the body's location.Īkron police officers responding to this call entered Snipes's unlocked apartment and found her naked, mutilated body lying on the bedroom floor. Meanwhile, defendant viewed the police unit's arrival and departure while hiding behind a tree across the street. The police officers dispatched to Snipes's address entered Snipes's apartment building and checked around, but left after finding nothing unusual. reported the location of a mutilated body. Thereafter, defendant was in and out of the bar five to six times between 9:00 and 10:30 p.m.ĭefendant first contacted the police on September 9 with a series of anonymous 911 calls, which he later admitted to. and appeared nervous and hyper, and talked excessively. According to Richard Russell, a bartender at the Inn Between, defendant entered the bar at around 8:00 p.m. She was never seen alive again.ĭefendant had the day off from work on September 9. That afternoon, at around 4:30 p.m., Snipes was observed crossing a street in a nearby business district. Defendant closed the window blinds and "obviously she wasn't very happy about it" because she "scolded" him and reopened the blinds. ![]() Morris testified that Snipes was yelling at defendant about touching stuff that was not his. While walking past Snipes's apartment on his way home, Morris observed Snipes and defendant through the upstairs window of her apartment. Thereafter, defendant and Snipes left the bar and they went to her apartment across the street.Īround 3:00 a.m., David Morris, an acquaintance of defendant and Snipes, left the Inn Between, another Akron bar. Defendant kissed Snipes on the cheek and they talked. on September 9, 1997, defendant met Snipes at the Bucket Shop, an Akron bar. The state also introduced as evidence defendant's bloody tee-shirt and Snipes's watch recovered from defendant's apartment, and forensic testimony linking defendant to the murder.Īround 2:20 a.m. In order to establish defendant's guilt, the state introduced statements defendant *639 had made to the police and to a fellow inmate in jail, and the testimony of a co-worker that defendant mentioned cutting off a victim's hands as a way to eliminate evidence in the O.J. During the late afternoon of September 9, 1997, defendant went to Snipes's apartment and brutally murdered her by tying her to the bed, stabbing her one hundred thirty-eight times, slitting her throat, and cutting off her hands.ĭefendant was convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, and tampering with evidence, and sentenced to death. Subsequently, they engaged in sexual intercourse on several occasions. Hartman, 93 Ohio St.3d 274, 754 N.E.2d 1150 (2001), described the factual background of the murder that underlays this case:ĭefendant met Winda Snipes at a bar in Akron, Ohio, sometime during 1997. The Ohio Supreme Court's opinion in State v. After exhausting his direct appeals and state post-conviction remedies, Hartman seeks a writ of habeas corpus in federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. On May 22, 1998, the Summit County trial court sentenced Hartman to death. On May 18, 1998, the jury sat for a mitigation hearing and, on that same day, recommended a death sentence. The jury also found Hartman guilty of tampering with evidence and kidnapping. On April 14, 1998, a Summit County, Ohio jury convicted Petitioner Brett Hartman of aggravated murder with an aggravated circumstance specification of kidnapping. Hartman, an inmate in the custody of the Mansfield Correctional Institution of Ohio and under a sentence of death seeks this writ, saying that both his conviction and his sentence violate the United States Constitution.īecause the Court concludes that Hartman's claims are without merit, the Court DENIES Hartman's petition. On January 16, 2003, Petitioner Brett Hartman ("Hartman") petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Ranke, Office of the Attorney General, State of Ohio, Capital Crimes Section, Cleveland, OH, for Margaret Bagley, Respondent. McCaffrey, McLaughlin & McCaffrey, Cleveland, OH, for Brett Hartman, Petitioner.ĭaniel R. Joseph Bodine, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, State of Ohio, Corrections Litigation Section, Columbus, OH, John B.
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