California judges shoot down double-murder convict Daniel Marsh's appeal to be released next year: report

An attorney for Daniel Marsh – the man convicted of brutally killing an elderly California couple when he was 15 years old – argued in court on Wednesday that Marsh should be released from prison next year under a state law that would make him eligible at the age of 25, the Fresno Bee reports.

Mark Greenberg, Marsh's attorney, argued that a 2018 Yolo Superior Court hearing on whether Marsh should have been tried as a juvenile amounted to a retrial, but one of the three appeals judges shot down that notion down Wednesday.  In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, Mary Northrup wipes her eyes after describing the 2013 murder of her father Oliver Northrup and his wife, Claudia Maupin, by a 15-year-old during news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, Victoria Hurd, right, leans on her daughter, Sara Rice, as she wipes her eyes after describing the 2013 murder of her father Oliver Northrup and his wife Claudia Maupin, by a 15-year-old during news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) "There’s nothing to appeal," state Associate Justice Hoch told Greenberg, according to the Fresno Bee. "There’s no retrial. The original judgment (was) reinstated. There was no new judgment."