CLARK COUNTY — The 83-year-old man who was convicted of the 2024 murder of an Uber driver last week has requested a new trial.
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News Center 7’s Mike Campbell will have the latest on this development tonight on News Center 7 at 6:00.
The attorney for William Brock filed a motion on Tuesday requesting a new trial and an acquittal of his conviction, according to Clark County Common Pleas Court documents.
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Brock’s attorney stated in court documents that the jury instructions were “fatally flawed.”
“The jury was not instructed that they need not deliberate whether the State disproved any element of self-defense when Mr. Brock was presumed to have acted in self-defense,” the filing states. “The jury was not instructed that the State had to prove Ms. Hall was not unlawfully at Mr. Brock’s residence by a preponderance of the evidence in order to rebut the presumption of self-defense.”
As News Center 7 previously reported, a jury found Brock guilty of the murder of Lo-Letha Hall on Jan. 14. He was also convicted of felonious assault and kidnapping.
The filing requesting a new trial comes a day before Brock was set to be sentenced for his murder conviction. We’re working to learn if this filing will impact the sentencing date.
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