Murderer’s appeal rejected in Idaho

BOISE – A federal court has rejected an appeal from an Idaho man who claimed he killed a Clarkston, Wash., couple because they molested his daughter. Kenneth Arrasmith contended in U.S. District Court that the state withheld evidence and that deputies lied during his 1995 trial.

But U.S. Judge Edward Lodge disagreed, dismissing the case with prejudice – meaning the issues in the appeal cannot be brought before a court again.

Arrasmith, a former Asotin County, Wash., sheriff’s deputy, was convicted May 17, 1995, for the first-degree murder of Luella Bingham and the second-degree murder of her husband, Ronald Bingham.