The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the murder conviction of Anthony Fenton Tuesday.
Fenton was sentenced to 18-36 years (plus fees and restitution) after a jury trial in August 2024 in the murder of Tammy Prosser in 2021 in an apartment on Main Street in Bradford.
Fenton claimed that she died after succumbing to injuries falling down the stairs, however multiple surveillance cameras an witnesses disputed all of his claims.
Fenton appealed various court rulings from prior to the trial with District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer also appealing the sentence asserting that the Trial Court gave Fenton credit for more days served in jail prior to trial than he was entitled to.
The Superior Court denied all of Fenton’s claims, including that the trial court erred in admitting his statements finding that he never asked for a lawyer and citing the long-standing law in Pennsylvania that a suspect must unequivocally request an attorney.
The Superior Court denied the remainder of Fenton’s claims – relating to warrants, admission of the victim’s diary, prior threats made by Fenton, and testimony of a prior girlfriend as well as his claims that the evidence was not sufficient and that the trial was not promptly scheduled.
During the sentencing, the trial court awarded Fenton credit for time he spent in jail prior to trial, during which he was also serving a sentence on an assault he committed in the jail.
DA Vettenburg-Shaffer appealed and argued that some of the time credited toward the Murder sentence should have been allotted to the prior assault, thereby reducing the amount of credit awarded to the sentence imposed for Murder.
The Superior Court agreed and reduced the credit awarded to him on his murder conviction by 540 days and affirming the murder conviction.