Upper Tyrone Woman Seeks New Trial in 2005 Death

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A former prison secretary convicted of murdering a Fayette County tavern owner in 2005 insists her trial attorney was ineffective because he didn't offer testimony from an expert pathologist to challenge Dr. Cyril Wecht's ruling that the death was a homicide.

An all-male jury convicted Catherine Hamborsky of the third- degree murder of Thomas Lesniak after hearing evidence that she gave police a statement that she acted in self-defense by shooting him five times and stabbing him because he allegedly attacked her and demanded sexual favors.

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Upper Tyrone Woman Seeks New Trial in 2005 Death

Hamborsky, 44, of Upper Tyrone then returned to J.J.'s Restaurant and Bar hours later and set it on fire with Lesniak's dead body inside....

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