A sharply divided state Superior Court has narrowly granted a new trial to a Pennsylvania man who brutally raped and murdered a woman in 2004, ruling that his inability to obtain a continuance to his trial and the improper admission of “prior bad acts evidence” unduly prejudiced him.
Paul Aaron Ross, convicted of raping, maiming and killing Tina Miller near a lake in Western Pennsylvania, will have another chance to combat substantial physical evidence tying him to the crimes.
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