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Top court wants more on Lambert appeal

At least one justice is seeking more information from prosecution about convicted killer's
case.

By Cindy Stauffer
Lancaster New Era
Published: Apr 21, 2005 12:56 PM EST
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Someone at the nations
highest court is curious about Lisa Michelle Lambert.

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At least one U.S.
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prosecutors to spell out
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Prosecutors did that
Wednesday, in a
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20-page petition that
argues that Lambert, now 32, is actually guilty of
Shows murder and is rightly serving a life sentence.
Prosecutors had been hoping to simply file a perfunctory
one-page form in response to Lamberts recent appeal
to the U.S. Supreme Court, her final appeal in an almost
15-year odyssey through the court system.
But after prosecutors filed that form that basically
said that Lamberts appeal did not meet the
requirements for an appeal someone at the Supreme
Court wanted to hear more.

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At least one justice wanted to know our view on why we believe they should
not hear the case, said Kevin Harley, spokesman for state Attorney General
Tom Corbett, whose office is prosecuting the case.
Thousands of people try to get the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their cases
each year.

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Does this request for more information indicate that the court might be
interested in hearing Lamberts appeal?
Harley doesnt think so.
You cant really read anything into this, he said. If you look at the
percentage of cases the Supreme Court hears each year, its a minuscule
percentage, and we argue in our brief that...theres no reason why the nations
highest court should pick up her appeal.
Lamberts defense attorney, Peter Greenberg, declined to comment today on
the latest developments in the case.
In their petition, prosecutors argue that, Under Pennsylvania law, (Lambert) is
actually guilty of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Lambert stabbed Show to death in a jealous rage after Show
briefly dated Lamberts boyfriend, Lawrence Yunkin. Defense attorneys say it
was Yunkin and another friend, Tabitha Buck, who actually killed Show.
Buck, now 33, is serving a life sentence for her role in the killing. Yunkin, now
32, served nearly 12 years for his role, and was released from prison last year.
In a February filing, Greenberg, argued that prosecutors so mishandled her
case and that evidence was so dramatic that it led a federal judge to briefly
free Lambert in 1997. The fact that state courts reached a totally different
conclusion, upholding Lamberts original conviction, shows that they never
considered the relevant facts in her case, he said.
But prosecutors argued in their petition that the state courts did consider those
facts and still came to the conclusion that she was guilty of first-degree
murder.
Lambert cannot claim to be actually innocent, the petition says.
The petition notes the vivid testimony given by Buck during a past hearing, in
which Buck described watching Lambert cut Shows throat as though she were
cutting bread.
That testimony, taken into account with other evidence and Lamberts own
admission about going to Shows apartment on the day of the murder, prevent
her from demonstrating her innocence, the petition says.
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obie
the court should not hear michelles case as the pa courts have
04-21-2005 taken up
enough time on this murderer.
she is where she belongs and should stay there for life.

dimples
When will this ever end? Will Laurie Show ever get to rest in
04-21-2005 peace? Will her family ever get to sleep at night knowing Laurie's
killer is forever in Jail? Will Laurie's friends ever get the peace of
mind of knowing that their friend is finally at peace? Isn't enough
that the driver of the get away car is out on probation?
Give it up Lisa we all know you did it. Stop trying to blame other
people.

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Kate
Just when you think the past will remain in the past it comes
04-21-2005 back to haunt you.
I hope the US Supreme's put this to rest FOREVER!!!

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