The Nathanial Price homicide case has been quiet since last November, as Indiana County Court awaits the decision of Superior Court on an appeal of Judge Thomas Bianco’s ruling that the death penalty is a possibility. This week, Price’s attorney filed his brief in the appeal and yesterday the state attorney general’s office filed its reply.
The 21-year-old Price is charged with two counts of criminal homicide and single counts of robbery and conspiracy in the deaths in 2016 of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink at the victims’ apartment in Cherryhill Township. A co-defendant, Justin Stevenson, pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree murder and is serving two life terms in state prison without the chance at parole.
A third defendant, Isaiah Scott, was seventeen at the time of the murders, so his case was handled by Juvenile Probation. Scott fled when the beatings which led to the deaths of Gardner and Brink began. Gardner was beaten with a metal pipe by Stevenson and Brink was beaten with a baseball bat by either Stevenson or Price. They blame each other for Brink’s killing.
The case is being prosecuted by the attorney general’s office because of a conflict of interest involving the former law firm of Indiana County’s new district attorney, Bob Manzi. The State Supreme Court last month denied without comment a request for review by Price’s attorney.
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