Harrisburg man can’t beat life-plus-70-year jail term for slaying where victim was bound, shot, set on fire
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
A Harrisburg man who has spent 24 years behind bars for a murder where the victim was bound with duct tape, shot and set on fire has failed to convince a state appeals court panel that he should not spend the rest of his life in a prison cell.
William H. Marks, who was convicted for the 1996 slaying of Victor “Dominican Manny” Del Rosario, had pinned his hopes for release on a recantation by the main witness who testified for the prosecution during his homicide trial.
Child molester’s claim that his prison term is too long rejected by Pa. court
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Instead, Davis is serving a 22- to 44-year sentence and he contends that’s way too harsh.
A state Superior Court panel disagreed and upheld the Schuylkill County man’s penalty in an opinion by Judge Carolyn H. Nichols. Regardless of what Davis thought was going to happen, his punishment falls well within the bounds of the law, Nichols found.
Kelby Davis
Davis, now 35, pleaded guilty to charges of child endangerment, corruption of minors, aggravated indecent assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and statutory sexual assault. Police said he molested a girl from 2016 to 2018.
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Judge can’t order chronic stalker to stay away from his victim, Pa. court says
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
A Lancaster County judge exceeded his authority when he ordered a chronic stalker to stay away from one of his victims, a state appeals court has ruled.
County President Judge David L. Ashworth didn’t have that power when he sent 22-year-old Carlos Olivio-Vazquez to state prison for a bizarre series of incidents involving two women, the Superior Court panel found.
So, in an opinion by Judge Carolyn H. Nichols the state court voided Ashworth’s no contact order. It did, however, let stand Olivo-Vazquez’s 5- to 12-year prison sentence.