SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – The man serving life in prison for the 1997 Sarasota murder of Sheila Bellush has been denied a motion to throw out his sentence.
Jose Luis Del Toro filed the motion earlier this year, arguing an extradition agreement between the Mexican government and the U.S. was not followed.
In November 1997, Bellush’s ex-husband Allen Blackthorn in a bitter custody dispute over their two older daughters…