A man convicted of the 1971 robbery and murder of a 75-year-old eastern Pennsylvania man has lost a bid for a reduced sentence.
Sixty-three-year-old Daniel Lee Graves was 21 when he and several friends broke into the Easton home of Sebastiano Patiri.
His co-defendants said Graves killed the elderly man. Graves said he was high on LSD and had no memory of the attack.
The Express-Times says the Pennsylvania Superior Court Monday upheld a lower court's rejection of Graves' appeal of his life sentence.
Graves is among several convicted killers seeking reduced sentences after a U.S. Supreme Court case banning automatic life-without-parole sentences for anyone under 18.
Pennsylvania courts have said the rule doesn't apply to Graves because he was 21 at the time of the murder.
Convicted Murderer Won't Get Reduced Sentence
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