Life Term In Murder Contested; Culture Cited On Age

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) – A man convicted of a Pennsylvania murder is challenging his life sentence on the grounds that he believes he was a minor at the time of the crime because the age of children is calculated differently in his birth country.
Forty-five-year-old Todd Hyung-Rae Tarselli has been serving life in the killing of 17-year-old Mark Bunchalk during a 1992 robbery at a Hazleton fast-food restaurant.
The (Wilkes-Barre) Citizens’ Voice reports that Tarselli said in Luzerne