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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; An attorney for homicide suspect Anthony Dion Shaw is seeking to have more evidence abolished at his upcoming trial in Luzerne County.</p><p>Attorney David W. Lampman is requesting to have surveillance video recorded at Kmart in Wilkes-Barre Township and the Fuel One gasoline service station in White Haven banned from being used by prosecutors.</p><p>Lampman claims investigators uncovered the video recordings at the two businesses only after discovering receipts from the two businesses from Shaw&#8217;s vehicle and apartment in East Orange, N.J.</p><p>&#8220;In this case, the surveillance video from Kmart was discovered by police because of the Kmart receipt and Gerber knife packaging found in (Shaw&#8217;s) 2003 Mercury Sable on May 11, 2018. This Kmart receipt and Gerber knife packaging were found as a result of the illegal search of the vehicle,&#8221; Lampman wrote.</p><p>Judge Michael T. Vough in a ruling Aug. 5 barred prosecutors from using evidence recovered from Shaw&#8217;s apartment and vehicle.</p><p>Vough ruled East Orange, N.J., police unlawfully discovered the evidence without a search warrant while conducting a welfare check on Shaw, who was found with self-inflicted stab wounds inside his New Jersey apartment on May 4, 2018.</p><p>Vough&#8217;s ruling hampers prosecutors since a Gerber knife and two other knives covered with blood were found in Shaw&#8217;s apartment, including a notebook investigators said was an apology he wrote.</p><p>Footage from a body camera worn by an East Orange police officer inside Shaw&#8217;s apartment shows the officer flipping through the notebook that was on a kitchen counter. The body camera footage was played for Vough during a motions hearing in June.</p><p>Shaw, 43, is accused of stabbing to death Cindy Lou Ashton, 39, inside her Nicholson Street, Wilkes-Barre Township, residence on May 1, 2018. Her body was found by a township police officer May 2, 2018, while conducting a welfare check when she failed to show up at her employment.</p><p>Investigators alleged in the criminal complaint Shaw purchased a Gerber knife and socks at Kmart in the Blackman Shopping Plaza, about one mile from Ashton&#8217;s residence before she was killed.</p><p>After Ashton was killed, Shaw was allegedly recorded at the Fuel One service station refueling his Mercury.</p><p>Surveillance video at Fuel One shows Shaw with bandages on his hand while video at Kmart does not show Shaw with bandages, court records say.</p><p>&#8220;Since the video was only discovered as a result of the prosecutors illegal conduct, it is subject to suppression under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine,&#8221; Lampman wrote.</p><p>Lampman is also seeking to have Shaw released from the county correctional facility.</p><p>District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis previously said her office is considering an appeal of Vough&#8217;s ruling. If prosecutors filed an appeal, it will likely delay Shaw&#8217;s trial scheduled to begin Monday.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Attorney David V. Lampman II </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/web1_Attorney-David-Lampman-II-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Attorney David V. Lampman II </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/web1_Anthony-Shaw-08082019-4.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Shaw</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/web1_Anthony-Shaw-08082019-4.jpg</photo1><caption1>Shaw</caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

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