Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco has denied a defense motion for additional discovery in the Justin Stevenson murder case.
The 20-year-old Stevenson and 19-year-old Nathan Price are charged with killing Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink during a drug deal at the victims’ home in Cherryhill Township in October of 2016. Police say the two defendants planned to rob Gardner, but they beat him to death, and then killed Brink because she was a witness. Two young children who were sleeping at the time of the incident were not harmed. A third suspect, Isaiah Scott, was originally charged as an adult, but Judge Bianco transferred his case to juvenile court.
The ruling last week by Judge Bianco rejects a motion by attorney David Shrager, who contended that the audio and video of the interrogation of Stevenson after his arrest had been altered in some way. Bianco wrote that the court specifically relies on the testimony of Trooper John McCombie and the prosecutors affirming that the video and audio are “full and accurate and have not been abridged or edited in any way.”
A hearing on Shrager’s original omnibus pretrial motions is scheduled for tomorrow. Stevenson and Price are both scheduled for Criminal Call on April 6th. No trial date has been set. D.A. Pat Dougherty will seek the death penalty for both defendants.
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