Murder Conviction of Woman Upheld

A Lancaster County, Pa., judge upheld Lisa Michelle Lambert’s conviction of murder in the throat-slashing death of a teenage rival, rejecting claims that she was framed by prosecutors. Lambert, 25, won 10 months of freedom after a federal judge overturned her conviction and barred a retrial, saying the state couldn’t be trusted in the case. But a federal appeals court reinstated the conviction. Prosecutors say Lambert and an accomplice killed 16-year-old Laurie Snow in 1991 because she was angry that Show was dating her boyfriend. The trial judge, Common Pleas Court Judge Lawrence Stengel rejected a defense appeal to overturn the conviction on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.