In Indiana County Court today, a motions hearing is scheduled for one of two defendants in the beating deaths of a Cherryhill Township couple almost a year ago.
19-year-old Nathan Price and 20-year-old Justin Stevenson are accused of killing Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink last October 27th during an alleged drug deal. Police say Price and Stevenson beat Gardner to death with a pipe. Then one of them went upstairs and beat Brink to death because, according to police, she was a witness to the crime. Each of the defendants says the other was the one who killed Brink. Nevertheless, both are charged with two counts of criminal homicide and two counts of conspiracy to robbery and District Attorney Pat Dougherty is seeking the death penalty. A third defendant, 18-year-old Isaiah Scott, was originally charged with the same offenses, but his case was transferred to juvenile court because he was 17 at the time of the murders.
After months of delays, Price’s attorney filed an omnibus pretrial motion for relief, supplementing it with an additional motion on September 25th. The hearing on those motions is scheduled for today before Judge Thomas Bianco. Stevenson was also scheduled for his motions hearing today, but he’s been granted a continuance to November 15th.
There is also a motions hearing scheduled today for 71-year-old Robert Kinnan of Glen Campbell, who is charged with corruption of minors and indecent assault of a person under the age of 13. The charges were filed in April for a case originating in November of last year. Kinnan’s attorney is seeking to have the charges dropped through a writ of habeas corpus, and has also filed an omnibus pretrial motion in the case.
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