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Joe Deters: As Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, his office tried and convicted Elwood Jones (sentenced to death in 1996) for the 1994 murder of Rhoda Nathan; in December 2022 a Hamilton County judge overturned the conviction, finding more than 4,000 pages of documents had been withheld from the defense, and the case was dismissed by the county's current prosecutor in December 2025.

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As Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, his office tried and convicted Elwood Jones (sentenced to death in 1996) for the 1994 murder of Rhoda Nathan; in December 2022 a Hamilton County judge overturned the conviction, finding more than 4,000 pages of documents had been withheld from the defense, and the case was dismissed by the county's current prosecutor in December 2025.

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