BELLEVUE, Wash. — A Washington appeals court on Monday upheld a 46-year-to-life sentence for a man convicted of killing four members of a Bellevue family as a teenager nearly three decades ago, rejecting his argument that the punishment effectively amounts to an unconstitutional life sentence.
A three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, Division One, affirmed Alex Kevin Baranyi’s resentencing, finding that the trial court properly considered his age at the time of the killings and evidence of his rehabilitation in prison.
Baranyi was 17 when he and another teenager killed the Wilson family in January 1997…