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An 86-year-old B.C. man and former teacher recently given an eight-year federal sentence for historic sexual crimes against young boys will have to await the outcome of his appeal from a prison cell, a B.C. judge has ruled. In a decision posted last week, Chief Justice Leonard Marchand and two other judges dismissed Brian Melicke Moore’s application for a panel of B.C. Appeal Court justices to review a decision by their colleague who earlier dismissed Moore’s bail application. Moore was convicted in November of sexually interfering with the boys between 1976 and 1982, when most...