A now-disbarred Bucks County attorney who pled guilty to plotting the kidnapping and murder of the resident of a home he hoped to turn into a sex club, as well as scheming to defraud insurers by staging auto accidents, unsuccessfully appealed the denial of his Post-Conviction Relief Act petition.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Nov. 16 unanimously affirmed a ruling by a Bucks County Court of Common Pleas judge denying defendant Joseph P. Guarrasi’s PCRA petition.