Sentence affirmed in Mullica Hill beting of woman

PRESS RELEASE
November 9, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO


A state appeals court today upheld a five year New Jersey state prison sentence for David W. Hill (DOB 5/29/61), convicted of assaulting a woman he shared a Mullica Hill, Gloucester County NJ apartment with on July 27, 2008.

Appellate judges dismissed Hill’s claim of an excessive sentence without comment. The panel also found that the trial judge correctly permitted any cross-examination of Hill to include his eight-year-old record of convictions for aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a weapon, saying they were “not so remote in time” that they could not be offered to impeach his credibility, “particularly in light of the intervening convictions for hindering apprehension in 2006, making harassing communications in 2007 and hindering apprehension in 2008.”

In the domestic violence incident, the victim testified Hill punched her at least five times in one eye, causing her to be hospitalized with bone fractures around the eye.

The sentence imposed by Superior Court Judge Walter L. Marshall on Aug. 31, 2010 “was judicious and not excessive,” Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Margaret A. Cipparrone wrote in a brief.