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Convicted killer Lisa Michelle Lambert claims

prosecutor believed her 'wrongfully convicted'
By BRETT HAMBRIGHT | Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014 9:50 am
Convicted killer Lisa Michelle Lambert is asking a federal
court to review her conviction, claiming newlydiscovered evidence warrants reconsideration of her
case.
Lambert is serving a life sentence for the Dec. 21, 1991
murder of 16-year-old Laurie Show.
Lambert, a 40-year-old inmate at a Massachusetts state
prison, claims in her filing that Lancaster Countys court
system is corrupt and that the man who prosecuted her
believed her innocent.
The appeal, filed by Lambert herself to Pennsylvania
Eastern District federal court, seeks relief from her July
1992 wrongful conviction of murder.

Convicted killer Lisa Michelle

Lambert claims prosecutor
believed her wrongfully
convicted

(Its filed as a civil-action suit, not a criminal appeal,

because she wasnt convicted in a federal court.)

Lisa Michelle Lambert

The suit mentions new findings, although the evidence

has been mentioned before in prior appeals.
The parties mentioned in the suit are: Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman, state
Attorney General Kathleen Kane and the warden of the prison where Lambert is housed.
Stedman, on Friday morning, rejected the latest filing.
"There is nothing new here," he said. "These are the same absurdities she claimed in state court. They
were litigated, dismissed, and sustained on appeal."
The suit leans heavily on a letter written by a convicted felon that includes a statement allegedly made
by the late prosecutor Jack Kenneff.
Kenneff, after becoming a defense lawyer, allegedly made a statement in 2007 to Warren
Raffensberger Jr. that Lancaster Countys judicial system is corrupt, according to the filing. The 5-page
note includes statements allegedly made by Kenneff about Lamberts innocence.

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Kenneff stated that the Lisa Michelle Lambert case has been weighing very heavily upon him, as he
had wrongfully convicted her, Raffensbergers letter states.
The letter has been introduced in at least three prior appeals, in 2012 and 2013, to Lancaster County
Court and the state's Supreme and Superior Courts.
All were denied.
"Jack Kenneff most certainly did not believe Lambert was innocent as she claims," said Stedman, who
worked with Kenneff for years. "This is just another desperate attempt to avoid being held
accountable."
Lambert, along with convicted accomplice Tabatha Buck, killed Show at the Conestoga Valley
sophomores East Lampeter home as she prepared for school.
Lambert, who viewed Show as a romantic rival, was convicted of slashing Shows throat. Buck was
convicted of assisting in the murder: in particular, holding Show inside the condominium at The Oaks.
Both women are serving life terms with no chance for parole.
Stedman said he is aware of the filing, although his office hasnt been formally served with the suit.

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