The Indiana County District’s Attorney’s office has filed a brief opposing a motion by homicide defendant Justin Stevenson to suppress cell phone evidence as his case slowly makes its way to trial.
The 20-year-old Stevenson and co-defendant Nathan Price are accused of beating to death Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink at the couple’s Cherryhill Township home outside of Clymer in October of 2016. The two defendants are accused of jumping Gardner during a marijuana deal and beating him to death with a metal pipe, and then beating brink to death because she was a witness.
Stevenson’s attorney, David Shrager, filed a motion to challenge warrants for the cell phone records of Stevenson’s co-defendants and the victims. On Friday, Assistant D.A. Gina Ryen Force filed the brief in opposition to Shrager’s motion, citing the defendant’s lack of standing to challenge the warrants. The cell phone checks would presumably also include evidence gathered from the cell phone of Isaiah Scott, who was originally charged with homicide as a third defendant, but whose case was subsequently shifted to juvenile authorities because he was only seventeen at the time of the killings.
A motions hearing is scheduled for Stevenson on May 16th.
