Finlay pleads guilty

Tyler Finlay, the 21-year-old Rathdrum man charged with manslaughter in the June death of Jeffrey Marfice, has pleaded guilty to the charge.

Finlay, a 2014 Lakeland High School graduate, admitted in First District Court Tuesday to punching Marfice in the face on the 300 block of North Fourth Street, knocking him to the ground. Marfice was transported by ambulance to Kootenai Health with a head injury and died the next day.