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Jury selection begins in '60 Slayer' case |
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 LOS ANGELES -- Lawyers for an accused serial killer will not dispute that their client fatally beat and strangled six women, but will instead argue to jurors the killings were something short of first-degree murder.
Attorneys for Ivan Hill revealed the defense strategy Monday as jury selection began in Hill's death penalty trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.
"The only question we will raise regarding these killings is whether Ivan Hill had the necessary state of mind required under the law for a finding of first-degree murder," defense attorney Mitchell Bruckner told prospective jurors.
Hill, 45, is accused of being the so-called "60 Slayer," who authorities say strangled eight women, mostly prostitutes, from November 1993 through January 1994.
The bodies were found in Diamond Bar, Industry, Pomona, Ontario and Chino, all cities along the 60 Freeway.
Hill is charged with six murders. Authorities believe he killed at least two other women, though no charges were filed in connection with those incidents. Evidence of those two killings, however, will be presented during Hill's trial.
About 100 prospective jurors, most appearing relatively unexcited about performing their civic duty, packed a high-security downtown Los Angeles courtroom Monday for the process of determining who among them would decide Hill's fate.
In an unusual move, Judge Larry Paul Fidler asked attorneys for both sides to present mini-opening statements to the massive jury panel.
Opening statements, in which attorneys tell jurors what they expect the evidence in the trial will show, typically are presented after a jury is selected.
Fidler changed the procedure in Hill's case in order to ready the potential jurors for the rigorous questioning they will face in the jury selection process.
Deputy District Attorney John Monaghan showed the potential jurors graphic photos of the six dead women as he briefly laid out his case.
Some of the women had their hands or feet bound with rope. A few looked as though their mouths had been taped shut.
"So they weren't able to call out and seek help as he murdered them," Monaghan told the crowd.
The prosecutor said evidence in the trial will show Hill strangled the women for five to seven minutes each to kill them.
He said the duration of the strangulations, coupled with the binding and taping of the victims, showed the killings amounted to first-degree murder.
"He intended to murder each one of these six women," Monaghan told jurors.
The prosecutor also said DNA recovered during sexual assault examinations on five of the bodies matched Hill's.
He then played for potential jurors recordings of two telephone calls the killer made to Pomona police on Jan. 12, 1994. In the calls, a man who identifies himself as "the strangler" tells police he killed a fresh victim and dumped her body at San Antonio Park in Ontario.
"What's this, number five or six?" the caller asked. "I forget, but she's out there."
The caller then delivered an ominous warning.
"Y'all better catch me before I kill again," he said.
Monaghan said he will call several witnesses in the trial, including several of Hill's ex-girlfriends, who will identify the caller as Hill.
Bruckner, meanwhile, told the jury panel the defense would not challenge any of that evidence.
The defense attorney did not elaborate on how Hill's legal team would show the killings were not premeditated murder.
Instead, he spent the bulk of his mini-opening statement imploring potential jurors to keep an open mind about the case and to be honest as they answered questions during jury selection.
"It's important you all seek the truth, whatever that truth will be," he said.
Jury selection began Monday afternoon and was scheduled to resume today. |
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