MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Convicted murderer Michael Rimmer has been sentenced to death again after being retried, District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced Saturday.
Rimmer was found guilty of murdering motel clerk Ricci Ellsworth in 1997, and he received a death sentence.
In fall 2013, a judge overturned his conviction, saying the DA’s office didn’t turn over all the information it should have to Rimmer’s attorneys, and because of that, they couldn’t prepare a proper defense.
Judge James Beasley said the DA’s office never told the defense team about an eyewitness who told police two men with blood on their hands were inside the motel around the time she went missing.
Rimmer was granted a new trial, but the outcome was no different.