Judge Thomas Bianco yesterday held an evidentiary hearing for 20-year-old Nathaniel Price, who is one of two defendants charged with the murders of a Cherryhill Township couple in October of 2016.
Judge Bianco set in place a timeline for the two sides to get their pretrial maneuvering done. He ordered the defense attorney to provide the district attorney’s office with a written transcript of the audio portion of a police interview with Price which was conducted after his arrest on the night of the shooting, and then D.A. Pat Dougherty will have fifteen days to give Manzi suggested additions, deletions, or corrections. Then the two sides will have get together to finalize the document for use at trial. The defense will then submit a brief in support of pending pretrial motions, after which Dougherty will respond and the defense file any supplemental briefs.
The judge must then rule on those motions and set a trial date.
Price and 21-year-old Justin Stevenson are each charged with two counts of criminal homicide, along with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the deaths of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink at the couple’s apartment outside of Clymer. The murders occurred during a drug purchase in which police allege that the two defendants jumped Gardner and beat him to death, and one of the two then went upstairs and killed Brink because she was a witness. The two defendants each blame the other for Brink’s murder.
Dougherty will seek the death penalty for both Price and Stevenson.
