With a single docket entry, it appears to be the end of the line for Richard McAnulty’s appeal of his murder conviction.
The 63-year-old McAnulty was found guilty in 2011 of the murder of 39-year-old Harry Mears III of South Greensburg. Last July, state Superior Court rejected his appeal of the conviction and he then appealed to the Supreme Court. Without comment, the Supreme Court last month denied his appeal and its decision was posted by Westmoreland County yesterday.
In July of 2010, McAnulty discovered emails between his wife and Mears on a computer at his home outside of Homer City, in Center Township. He got into his truck and drove to Mears’ home, where he shot Mears, then chased him through the house and out of a second-floor window. After Mears fell off a porch roof to the ground below, he begged for his life, but McAnulty shot him again, killing him. McAnulty then drove home and was sitting on his front porch, waiting to surrender when police arrived.
McAnulty is serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.
