A status conference is scheduled for today for a man convicted in 2009 for the killing of a Blairsville dentist three years earlier.
60-year-old Kevin James Foley is due for the hearing this morning before Indiana County President Judge Tomas Bianco. Foley is currently serving a sentence of life without parole for the murder of Dr. John Yelenic at his home in April of 2006. In 2017, he appealed the case before the State Superior Court, saying that then-President Judge William Martin should not have allowed jurors to hear testimony about bloody footprints found near the victim’s body. The court also affirmed DNA evidence collected under Yelenic’s fingernails along with other pieces of proof linked Foley to the crime.
Last September, he filed a Post Conviction Relief Act order, which was amended in January.
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