Calling his appeal "rambling and for the most part incoherent," a state Superior Court panel has refused to void the convictions of a man who shoplifted $814 worth of condoms from a Rite Aid store.

Bryant McCaskill, 47, of Tobyhanna, insisted he didn't steal those birth-control devices, and that video surveillance footage in the Mount Pocono store only proved he was in the building on the day the thefts occurred in October 2014.

A Monroe County disagreed, and convicted him of retail theft and receiving stolen property. County Judge Arthur L. Zulick sentenced McCaskill to 21 months to 4 years in prison last year.

President Judge Emeritus Kate Ford Elliott noted in the Superior Court opinion that two Rite Aid workers placed McCaskill in the store on the day of the condom heist. One worker said McCaskill was wearing white long johns under shorts and a vest and a hoodie. He was walking with a cane, she said.

That employee said she encountered McCaskill when he asked where he could find reusable shopping bags to use for trick-or-treat. Three such bags were stolen from the store, police said. They said the thief also left a trail of condom boxes.

During McCaskill's trial, the prosecutor played a security video that investigators claimed showed McCaskill leaving the store carrying reusable shopping bags that were full.

McCaskill claimed in his failed appeal, which he composed himself, that the prosecutor should not have been allowed to show the jury only part of the security video. He contended the entire video, which was several hours long, should have been played.

He insisted as well that there is no evidence he committed the theft and that the judge sentenced him too harshly and should not have considered his other criminal convictions in New York.

Elliott rejected all of those arguments, along with another claim by McCaskill, who is black, that the prosecutor was racially biased for refusing to seat a black potential juror on the panel that weighed his case.