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p*V.UUW4 »f A VI A VllVdecision. From -our point of view it's discouraging that, six years later, we’re still addressing these issues. I’d hope this is the end of it.But attorney David Weaver of Johnstown, Farbo’s court-appointed appeals lawyer, said the state Supreme Court will be asked to review the case.“We knew that it would not be easy to upset a murder conviction, and we expected, although we are disappointed, that the Superior Court would affirm. Our next step will be the Supreme Court,” he said in a phone interview from his law office.In its latest ruling, the Superior Court said Farbo’s issue on the 911 tape is little more than attacks uponVlU V 1 til UV VllVV/- had a handgun inher possession similar to the one stolen in the burglary.Weaver, in the latest appeal, suggested that Catena's testimony could have been discredited at the trial because she would have received the life insurance money if Farbo was convicted. Pennsylvania's Slayer's Act blocks a convicted murder from benefiting from a killing.The state court ruled, however, “There is no evidence of record to suggest that Dorothy Catena knew she was a beneficiary at the time she testified. If Dorothy Catena did not know she was an alternate beneficiary at the time of her testimony, then the evidence of her beneficiary status is of little, if any impeachment value.”ry Avenue was sent to thePrison in lieu of a $15,000»lice accused Bryan of raping itween 5 and 7 a.m. at her00 block of W illow Avenue. He d of detaining her in the resi-: her will.the woman are acquainted, the ryan also is accused of violat-on-from-abuse order, police1 eventually fled her home andtl hospital, where police were*i arrested at his home, policeconspiracy charges- Two area men are charged mg to steal a car and then rob a in Indiana County, ian Fell. 32, of Clune, andLawrence Richard Siford, 35, of McIntyre, were arrested on the charges earlier this month by state police at Indiana.The two are accused of conspiring to steal a 1985 Chevrolet Celebrity on May 26 from a parking lot of a restaurant in White Township and used the car in an armed robbery later that day at the Shop Save store along Ben Franklin Road in the township.During the robbery, Fell is accused of pointing a handgun at a store clerk and taking a bank-deposit bag containing about $600 in dimes, quarters and nickels.Police charged Siford with driving Fells from the robbery scene in the stolen car.The car was recovered within 45 minutes of the hold-up, police said.Fell is free on bond.Siford was sent to the Indiana County Jail in lieu of a $190,000 bond.Hearings for both suspects are pending before District Justice Richard Orendorff of Indiana.
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Johnstown Tribune Democrat
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jun 09, 1998
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