COLUMBUS, Ohio: The state Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a man convicted in 2013 for the 1974 slayings of a northeastern Ohio couple and their 4-year-old daughter.
The court last week declined to accept the appeal from 67-year-old James Ferrara.
Ferrara already was serving 20 years to life for a double murder when he was sentenced to life terms for the deaths of Ben and Marilyn Marsh and their daughter, Heather, at their home in suburban Canfield. The adults were shot, and the girl was beaten.
WFMJ-TV in nearby Youngstown reports an appeals court previously rejected Ferrara’s attempts to challenge fingerprint and ballistic evidence and his claims of misconduct by prosecutors and having ineffective legal counsel.
Ferrara is imprisoned at the Marion Correctional Institution.