Collar Bomb Killer Serving Life Sentence Loses Latest Appeal

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A western Pennsylvania woman convicted in a bizarre bank robbery plot that killed a pizza deliveryman forced to wear a bomb collar has lost her latest appeal.

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong is serving a life sentence in the Erie bank robbery plot that ended in the 2003 death of 46-year-old Brian Wells.

The Erie Times-News reports that a federal judge rejected her second appeal Monday after finding the trial evidence sufficient to link her to the conspiracy.

The judge said some of Diehl-Armstrong's handwritten court filings were nearly unreadable. She represented herself in the appeal.

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The 66-year-old Erie woman called the ruling an "unmistakable miscarriage of justice."

Co-defendant Kenneth Barnes pleaded guilty and testified against her.

Wells died when the bomb locked to his neck exploded after he robbed a bank.

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