A man convicted of having strangled a pharmacist and his girlfriend in northeast Pennsylvania more than a dozen years ago is challenging the amount of restitution he has been ordered to pay.
Forty-one-year-old Hugo Selenski was ordered to pay more than $198,000 in restitution and prosecution costs following his conviction in Luzerne County Court.
Selenski, who was sentenced to life in prison, filed a motion Monday calling the costs "speculative, excessive (and) disproportionate." Defense attorney Edward Rymsza is seeking a hearing in which prosecutors would have to "prove the amount" of the costs.
Selenski was convicted of having killed Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett in 2002 as part of a robbery plot. Their bodies were among at least five sets of remains found in Selenski's yard north of Wilkes-Barre in 2003.
