RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A judge has rejected an amateur photographer's bid to have his 30-year sentence thrown out in the death of a Virginia Commonwealth University student.
Mathews County Circuit Judge William H. Shaw dismissed a motion Monday to vacate Benjamin Fawley's second-degree murder conviction in the 2005 slaying of freshman Taylor Behl of Vienna.
Fawley filed a similar petition earlier with the Virginia Supreme Court. Shaw ruled Fawley cannot appeal in two courts at the same time.
Fawley entered an Alford plea in 2006 to charges that he killed Behl, a 17-year-old student whose body was found a month after she disappeared in Mathews County. An Alford plea means Fawley did not admit guilt, but acknowledged there was enough evidence to convict him.
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