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Saturday, January 29, 2000 Page: 5A
WILKES-BARRE – A state Supreme Court ruling that Tyrone Moore’s defense
attorneys were not ineffective during his 1983 murder trial and sentencing
should stand, an assistant district attorney argued Friday.
Assistant District Attorney Jim McMonagle said during his closing arguments
that the Supreme Court has already ruled that Moore’s attorneys gave him
“zealous and reasonable representation.”
Moore was convicted in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in 1983 of
shooting Nicholas Romanchick, 31, during a 1982 robbery at the Forty Fort
Animal Hospital in Wyoming. Romanchick had taken his cat to the clinic and was
shot when the animal jumped from his arms.
Moore was sentenced to death in 1988 after post-trial appeals were
completed.
He was in Luzerne County Court this week trying to escape death row by
arguing jurors should have been told he suffered brain damage from boxing and
from his younger days.
Moore’s attorney, Bill Nolas, claims Moore’s prior attorneys were
ineffective for failing to obtain that information to present to jurors during
Moore’s sentencing.