Millionaire murderer John E. du Pont has lost his latest appeal of his conviction for the slaying of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz now that a federal appeals court has refused to order hearings on whether his lawyers in the 1997 trial botched his defense.
A Delaware County jury in 1997 rejected du Pont’s insanity defense at trial, finding him “guilty but mentally ill” on a count of third-degree murder. He was later sentenced to a term of 13 to 30 years in prison.
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