KINGSTON - An appeals court has affirmed the December 2016 murder conviction of Nicholas Pascarella Jr. in the slaying of his father.Pascarella Jr., now 44, fatally bludgeoned his father, 66-year-old Nicholas Pascarella Sr., in the driveway of the family home, striking him repeatedly as his father begged for his life and his mother watched in horror from her bedroom window, said Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright.Pascarella Jr.'s defense at trial was that [...]