The attorney for 32-year-old David Helsel, of Altoona, says he'll appeal again because the sentence imposed Thursday by Blair County Judge Elizabeth Doyle still amounts to a life sentence.
The (Altoona) Mirror (http://bit.ly/Qzz5FQ) says a three-judge Pennsylvania Superior Court panel upheld Helsel's convictions, but ruled last month he must be resentenced because his prior 10-year sentence for raping two girls in the 1990s should have counted as just one conviction.
Doyle says she respectfully disagrees that Doyle's current conviction, involving two other girls assaulted near an Altoona cemetery in 2009, amounts to only his second offense..
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Information from: Altoona Mirror, http://www.altoonamirror.com



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