Hall was indicted last year on 17 sex charges involving two accusers and based on 20-plus-year-old allegations.
He was to be sentenced Monday on seven charges involving one accuser, before his lawyers pushed for the delay to prepare for the sex-offender classification hearing, although Hall faces a mandatory life sentence.
On Friday, Hall was found guilty of the four rape and three sexual battery charges, ending a five-day trial in Warren County Common Pleas Court.
Hall was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a woman, now 37, in 1995, 1997 and 1998 when she was a young girl in Springboro and Clearcreek Twp.
The accusers testified on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Both worked for Hall later in their lives, a point pressed by his lawyers to undermine allegations of sex abuse while they were girls attending school in Springboro.
Hall, an ex-Realtor, was arrested in May 2019 after police searched his Clearcreek Twp. home and Springboro real estate office.
On Thursday, Tepe dismissed seven charges involving a different accuser.
Tepe dismissed the charges due to changes in the definition of ‘sexual conduct’ under Ohio law in 1996 that, after hearing the accuser’s testimony, meant Hall had been charged under the wrong section of the law.
These charges could be refiled.
Tepe denied a motion for a mistrial, ruling the value of this accuser’s testimony outweighed any prejudice of the jury. The judge also noted another jury would likely hear the same testimony if the case was refiled by prosecutors.
Three other charges were dropped before the start of the trial.
On Friday, Hall was handcuffed and taken to the county jail after the jury, after less than two hours in deliberations, came back with guilty verdicts on all seven remaining charges.
Hall remained in the jail in Lebanon on Monday.
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