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In an opinion released Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Superior Court struck down an appeal filed by a convicted killer.
The Superior Court stated in their motion that they had rejected 46-year-old Jazs Bronner’s appeal to have his 20- to 40-year prison sentence for third degree murder reduced.
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The appeal and decision was reviewed and filed by President Judge Susan Peikes Gantman, Judge Anne E. Lazarus and Senior Judge William H. Platt.
The court wrote in their decision that they would uphold the sentence handed down by Bucks County President Judge Jeffrey L. Finley last summer after Bronner was found guilty by a jury of bludgeoning his 73-year-old father to death with a 10-pound dumbbell inside the well-kept home at 1005 Winder Drive in Bristol Township on March 31, 2014.
“While the specifics of Appellant’s (Bronner’s) argument are difficult to discern, he seems to claim that the trial court should have taken into account the jury’s decision to acquit him of first-degree murder, and should have considered mitigating factors such as his failure to testify, in imposing sentence,” the judges wrote in their decision.
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After striking his father with the dumbbell, Bronner, a former military member, left the Winder Drive house, traveled to Trenton and returned with his mother before 9-1-1 was called.
Prosecutors made the case during trial that Bronner had purposely struck his father with the dumbbell. However, Bronner had told authorities that his father fell and hit his head after starting an altercation.
