The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a Pittsburgh-area man convicted in the murder of a Canadian rabbinical student 22 years ago.

Forty-six-year-old Steven Tielsch of Penn Hills, Pa., was convicted in 2002 of third-degree murder at his fourth trial in the April 1986 slaying of 25-year-old Neal Rosenblum of Toronto.

Three earlier juries had deadlocked.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had previously rejected an appeal claiming prosecutorial misconduct and double jeopardy.

Tielsch is serving 10 to 20 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Rosenblum, who was wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish garb at the time, was shot because he looked Jewish.

(Source: The Canadian Press)