WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of Anthony Dion Shaw in the stabbing death of Cindy Lou Ashton in May 2018.
Shaw, 49, through his attorney, David V. Lampman II, challenged evidence recovered during a police welfare check from his East Orange, N.J., apartment was wrongly permitted to be used during his non-jury trial before Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough in April 2024.
An East Orange police officer conducted a welfare check on Shaw and was permitted inside his apartment by the building’s apartment manager on May 4, 2018…