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Lisa Michelle Lambert is Back in Court For Civil Case
Lisa Michelle Lambert, the convicted murderer in a 1991 stabbing of 15-year old Laurie Show, is back in the court room, this time for a civil case. Lambert has filed suit against Pennsylvania prison officials who allegedly allowed two prison guards to fondle, sexually attack and photograph her naked while in a Cambridge Springs prison.
A judge recently ruled that this case could go through after being filed in 1996. The Supreme Court declined to hear Lambert's case in 2005.
Over the 11-year span, many factors in the case have changed. Two of the six people she is suing in this case have died.
Lambert is now 34. The daughter she had while in prison turned 15 this past spring.
The suit alleges that a prison guard, James Eicher, sexually attacked Lambert six times in 1994. Another prison official, John Raun, fondled her, according to the suit.
Eicher was later fired and convicted of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault . He served two years in prison and was released on parole in December 1999.
Lambert's case also alleges that her complaints were ignored by prison officials, who later photographed and videotaped her naked.
Lambert's attorney, Angus Love of Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, states that two similar civil cases were filed by other female inmates and they were settled immediately.
Lambert was convicted and sentenced to life for stabbing Show to death in Show's home. Lambert allegedly killed Show in a fit of jealousy after Show's relationship with Lambert's then-boyfriend Lawrence Yunkin.
Yunkin, now 36, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the case and was released to a halfway house in 2005.
Lambert's accomplice, Tabitha Buck, now 33, was convicted of second-degree murder and a life sentence.
