HOPKINTON, Mass., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request for appeal by a British man convicted of killing his wife and baby in Massachusetts, prosecutors said.
Neil Entwistle was convicted in 2008 of shooting his wife and young daughter in 2006 and then fleeing to his native England. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
He had argued that police violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they twice entered his home in Hopkinton, Mass., without his permission, looking for his missing wife. On the second trip, police found the two bodies.
Appeals courts have ruled police were performing their "caretaker duty" and were not violating Entwistle's rights when they entered his home.
Prosecutors and police said they were happy to hear Entwistle, 34, is out of legal options, the Boston Herald said Tuesday.
"This certainly shuts the door behind that issue," said Joe Flaherty, a former state police chief homicide detective in Boston. "He'll spend years trying to find another issue in his trial. They all do that. He has plenty of time to sit there."
