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Source: Erie Times-News, Pa.迷你倉Jan. 01--Another year, another round of appeals for Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong.She continues to challenge her conviction and life sentence in federal prison in the pizza bomber case.Diehl-Armstrong is also appealing the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole's repeated refusal to parole her from her state prison sentence for the shooting death of her boyfriend James Roden.As she acknowledges, the parole appeal, which Diehl-Armstrong is handling herself, can never free her.A successful appeal would more quickly transfer her out of the state prison system, where she has been serving her sentence for Roden's death since 2005, and into the federal prison system, where she would start serving the sentence of life plus 30 years she received in the pizza bomber case in 2011."I really don't care," Diehl-Armstrong, 64, said in a telephone interview from the State Correctional Institution at Muncy. "I would be in the federal system if I wasn't here."However, she said, in federal prison "the law library is better."In the Roden case, Diehl-Armstrong pleaded guilty but mentally ill to third-degree murder, and Erie County Judge Shad Connelly sentenced her to seven to 20 years in state prison. While serving that sentence, Diehl-Armstrong in 2010 was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Erie in the pizza bomber case, and was sentenced in 2011.She was convictemini storage of being part of the plot that ended in the death of pizza deliveryman Brian Wells, who was killed when a bomb locked to his neck exploded after he robbed a bank in Summit Township on Aug. 28, 2003. The U.S. Attorney's Office alleged Diehl-Armstrong killed Roden, and helped stuff his body in a freezer, to silence him in the robbery plot.Diehl-Armstrong, who has been diagnosed as bipolar, was eligible for parole in the Roden case in September 2010, but the Parole Board has denied her request three times, most recently in June, according to court records. In that ruling, the board cited Diehl-Armstrong's "minimization/denial" of her offenses.Diehl-Armstrong appealed in September, claiming she is "a model inmate." She filed the appeal in U.S. District Court in Scranton, which covers Muncy. She filed more records in the case in December. The Parole Board is arguing the appeal is procedurally invalid.The U.S. Supreme Court a year ago refused to hear Diehl-Armstrong's direct appeal in the pizza bomber case. Representing herself, she filed another appeal in May, and that challenge is pending in U.S. District Court in Erie.ED PALATTELLA can be reached at 870-1813 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNpalattella.Copyright: ___ (c)2014 the Erie Times-News (Erie, Pa.) Visit the Erie Times-News (Erie, Pa.) at .GoErie.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage