Accused killer wants cellphone video suppressed from trial

A Pottstown man accused of the April 2019 gunshot slaying of another man in the borough maintains a cellphone video depicting him “singing and dancing while holding and waving a gun” is unduly prejudicial and prosecutors should be prevented from presenting it to a jury.

Stephen Moore, through his lawyer Carrie L. Allman, filed papers in Montgomery County Court, asking a judge to exclude the video as prosecutorial evidence at his upcoming trial.

“The video shows Mr. Moore singing and dancing while holding and waving a firearm. This firearm was not used in the homicide,” Allman, the chief homicide lawyer in the Montgomery County Office of Public Defender, wrote in court papers.

Allman argued the video will lead a jury to