The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reversed a ruling by a Blair County judge that would have allowed an Altoona man to appeal his conviction on drug-related ch
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A former Altoona man in prison for drug-related offenses that occurred more than two decades ago has lost his latest attempt to have his 31-year minimum sentence reduced.
Charles A. Bellon, now 41, argued to the Pennsylvania Superior Court that he had been denied a hearing before a Blair County judge who was under a federal court order to resentence him.
Senior Judge Hiram A. Carpenter of Blair County, who presided over Bellon’s trial in 2006, and who sentenced him to serve 31 to 62 years in a state correctional institution, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson to correct a portion of Bellon’s 2006 sentence.