There are motions hearings scheduled today in several criminal cases in Indiana County Court, but one of those hearings will not likely be happening.
That’s the case of 20-year-old Justin Stevenson, one of two defendants charged with murdering a Cherryhill Township couple in October of last year. Stevenson’s attorney, David Shrager, yesterday filed a motion asking for a continuance of his hearing, and also filed a motion for additional discovery.
In scheduling today’s hearing, Judge Thomas Bianco said last month that it would not be continued again “absent good cause”, but with the new motion, that standard may have been met. Stevenson and 19-year-old Nathan Price are charged with the deaths of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink during a drug deal in which police say the two defendants planned to rob Gardner, beat him to death, and then killed Brink to keep her from talking. A third suspect, Isaiah Scott, was originally charged as an adult, but Judge Bianco transferred his case to juvenile court.
Motions hearings are scheduled before Judge Bianco in two criminal cases against 45-year-old Miguel Galeno Alonso of Indiana, who is facing trial for sexually assaulting two children, one of whom was six years old and the other 12, between 2008 and 2010.
The cases came to light when a family member discovered a text written by one of the victims, and the other then came forward. The victims told police they would stay at Alonso’s home while their mother was at work, and on numerous occasions, he would touch them inappropriately, and sometimes take them out of the room into the living room or a closet, where he raped them.
Finally, Judge William Martin will conduct a motions hearing for 19-year-old Cynthia Lebron of Philadelphia, who faces drug and trespassing charges is a case dating to January of this year.
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