CINCINNATI (WKRC) – As Rodney Hinton awaits sentencing for murder and other charges set for Monday, his attorney continues to try to get him a new trial.
A jury last month convicted Hinton of running over and killing retired sheriff’s deputy Larry Henderson in May 2025. Hinton ran down Henderson just hours after Hinton was shown a body camera video of police shooting and killing his son during a stolen vehicle investigation.
Defense attorney Clyde Bennett argues that the jury should have only considered statements Hinton made to a psychologist to help assess his mental state, not to decide guilt or innocence. The jury was instructed not to consider statements made during an evaluation as evidence of guilt or innocence.
Bennett argues that the jury improperly used prejudicial information in their deliberations. Bennett said that in a post-conviction interview, a juror admitted the jury did consider the statement to the psychologist when it found Hinton guilty…