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    Death Penalty Trial Set for Nathanial Ray Price in 2016 PA Murder of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink



    Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink




    Death penalty to be sought against 2 in deaths of man, woman


    INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against two men accused of having killed a young couple in their western Pennsylvania home before fleeing with a safe.

    Nineteen-year-old Justin Stevenson and 18-year-old Nathaniel Price are charged in Indiana County with homicide, conspiracy and robbery in the October deaths of 26-year-old Timothy Gardner and 20-year-old Jacqueline Brink.

    The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/2jiyuzs) reports that District Attorney Patrick Dougherty said Friday that capital punishment will be sought if the two are convicted of first-degree murder.

    A third defendant is ineligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time of the Cherryhill Township slayings.

    The county coroner said Gardner was assaulted with a pipe and Brink struck with a baseball bat.

    http://www.theeagle.com/news/texas/d...7bf4b3186.html
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    August 21, 2017

    JUDGE ISSUES RULINGS IN STEVENSON AND PRICE CASES


    By Vipology

    Judge Bianco also granted defense motions filed by the attorneys for Justin Stevenson and Nathan Price, two young men accused in the beating deaths of a couple at their Cherryhill Township apartment outside of Clymer last October. Both men will be classified as paupers for the penalty phase of their trials. Robert Bell was appointed the penalty phase attorney for Stevenson and Thomas Hooper was named for same position for Price. Both defendants are scheduled for Criminal Call on October 6th.

    Bianco has not released a decision yet for the third defendant in the case, 18-year-old Isaiah Scott. A hearing was held last Wednesday on a petition to transfer Scott’s case to juvenile court, which would carry a much more lenient sentencing protocol.

    http://catcountry1063fm.com/judge-is...n-price-cases/
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    Clymer man gets life in prison in killings

    By Chauncey Ross
    Indiana Gazette

    A Clymer man was ordered Monday to spend the rest of his life in prison without parole for the slayings of an area couple in their home almost two years ago.

    At an emotional hearing attended by more than a dozen of the victims’ relatives and friends, Judge Thomas Bianco formally sentenced Justin Stevenson, 21, to serve two concurrent life terms for his part in the Oct. 27, 2016, beating deaths of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink in a townhouse apartment along Hillside Drive in neighboring Cherryhill Township.

    Gardner, 26, and Brink, 20, were left dead in the townhouse, but Gardner’s two young children were unharmed, investigators said.

    Prosecutors charged that Stevenson was among a trio of suspects who visited Gardner, supposedly to buy drugs, but who had plotted to rob him of drugs and money. The visit turned violent, according to state police, when Stevensonjumped Gardner and beat him to death with a metal pipe that police described as a breaker bar.

    Investigators said codefendant Isaiah Scott fled from the townhouse after Stevenson attacked Gardner, and charged that Nathaniel Price killed Brink with a baseball bat and a sharp object in the bedroom of the residence, after telling Stevenson “there could not be a witness.”

    Gardner and Brink’s loved ones on Monday asked Bianco to show no mercy, and condemned Stevenson as they read from prepared statements, some choking back tears.

    “I believe in the Bible saying an eye for an eye, and my feeling is you should die the same death you imposed on my son,” Gardner’s mother, Margot Gardner, wrote in a statement read in court by her daughter Celeste Gardner. “I pray to the Lord that the judge sentences you so you never ever see the light of day.”

    One after another, they testified of the emptiness left in their lives by the deaths of Gardner and Brink.

    “Tim and Jackie will never walk through my door again thanks to Justin Stevenson,” Linda Gardner, Tim’s aunt, told Bianco. “Please give our family justice, your honor, so we can try to begin to heal.”

    Gardner’s wife, Krista Gardner, estranged at the time of his death, paused and wept as she told Bianco, “My oldest (son) Jaxton, is traumatized. He wakes up in the middle of the night thinking the monsters are going to get him, too.

    “Who gave Justin the right to play God?” she continued. “My only peace is that Tim is with our little girl, Skyler, where he wanted to be.”

    “I have not had time to cry or mourn because my children and grandkids look to me as the rock of my family,” his father, Kenneth Gardner, of Black Lick, said. “There are teenage kids that looked up to Tim as a friend, mentor and big brother, giving them the advice that I once gave him.”

    Daniel Brink traveled from out of state to testify of the hardship that his family had experienced, taking time off work and driving to Pennsylvania after his granddaughter’s slaying and for the suspects’ court proceedings. He thanked state police Trooper John McCombie and Indiana County District Attorney Patrick Dougherty for regularly contacting the families and helping them to get through their tragedy.

    “In no way does this heal us or satisfy us,” Brink said of the sentencing hearing. “No court action will ever be enough. But it is somewhat satisfying to know that the defendant can never harm another innocent person again.”

    Offered his chance to speak, Stevenson, flanked by his attorneys at the front of the courtroom, began telling Bianco, “I’d like to apologize to the families …” but most of his statement was inaudible from the gallery, where family members began to sob.

    “This is a perfect example of how drugs can affect our communities,” Dougherty told Bianco, and asked him to impose the maximum possible sentence. “Anything less would not be appropriate.”

    Dougherty said in early 2017 that he would pursue the death penalty against Stevenson and Price if their cases went before a jury.

    Bianco read out the conditions of Stevenson’s sentence for second-degree murder.

    “On count one … no chance of parole.”

    He imposed fines of $1,000 and $5,000 for each of the counts, ordered Stevenson to pay $13,498 in costs of prosecution and required him to pay $4,434.80 of restitution, half the cost of funeral expenses that were paid out of pocket by Kenneth Gardner.

    Bianco gave Stevenson 10 days to file post-sentence motions before deputies escorted him from the courtroom by a rear exit.

    Dougherty gathered with the victims’ families to update them on the two co-defendants and reminded them that a gag order on everyone connected with the case remains in effect.

    Price, 20, awaits a status hearing in December in the county court.

    Scott, who was 17 at the time of the killings, was first charged as an adult but then certified as a minor and adjudicated in private in the juvenile court system. Scott was a star running back for the Penns Manor Area Comets high school football team.

    Stevenson pleaded guilty in August to two counts of second-degree murder in a deal that called for the district attorney’s office to set aside additional charges of robbery and conspiracy.

    https://www.indianagazette.com/news/...139aaa840.html
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    TRIAL DATE SET FOR MURDER DEFENDANT NATHANIAL PRICE

    By WDAD Radio

    There is finally a trial date for Nathanial Ray Price, the 20-year-old man charged in the killings of a Cherryhill Township couple at their apartment outside of Clymer on October 27th of 2016.

    Jury selection is scheduled in the courtroom of Judge Thomas Bianco on November 18th, more than three years after the murders of 26-year-old Timothy Gardner and 20-year-old Jacqueline Brink. 21-year-old co-defendant Justin Stevenson of Clymer pleaded guilty last August to two counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life in prison without the chance for parole.

    Price and Stevenson went to the apartment after arranging to buy marijuana from Gardner, but investigators say they had actually planned to rob him. They jumped him in the foyer of the apartment and beat him to death with a metal pipe. Then one of them went upstairs and beat Brink to death with a baseball bat because she was a witness. Price and Stevenson each say the other killed Brink. A third suspect, Isaiah Scott of Clymer, fled the scene when Gardner was attacked. He originally faced the same charges as Price and Stevenson, but his case was later transferred to juvenile probation because he was 17 years old at the time.

    Price is charged with two counts of criminal homicide and single counts of robbery and conspiracy to robbery. District Attorney Pat Dougherty will ask for the death penalty. Judge Bianco set the trial date yesterday after having held a pretrial conference on May 2nd. He also scheduled another pretrial conference for October 4th.

    https://www.wdadradio.com/syn/2140/2...thanial-price/
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    Trial delayed for Clymer homicide suspect

    By Chauncey Ross
    The Indiana Gazette

    The last of three suspects in the brutal 2016 killings of a Clymer-area couple has won a delay in his trial while defense attorneys fight the prosecution’s call for the death penalty in the case.

    Indiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Bianco on Wednesday agreed to indefinitely postpone the trial of Nathaniel Price while the Pennsylvania Superior Court hears an appeal of Bianco’s refusal to rule out execution as a possible penalty upon conviction.

    Price, 21, is charged with two counts of homicide and one count each of robbery and conspiracy. State police say Price and his co-defendants, Justin Stevenson and Isaiah Scott, plotted to rob Timothy Gardner of money and drugs at Gardner’s home along Hillside Drive in Cherryhill Township, and that Stevenson attacked Gardner and beat him to death with a metal pipe.

    Scott, prosecutors said, left the townhouse as the violence broke out and escalated as either Stevenson or Price then fatally beat Jacqueline Brink with a baseball bat in a second-floor bedroom to eliminate her as a witness to Gardner’s killing.

    Stevenson and Price have blamed each other for the woman’s death.

    Scott, who was 17 at the time of the killings on Oct. 27, 2016, was prosecuted as a juvenile. His court record has been kept confidential by the court system.

    Stevenson, now 22, pleaded guilty to two counts of homicide and was sentenced 14 months ago to serve two terms of life in prison.

    Defense attorney Thomas Dickey, of Altoona, could not be reached for comment on the Price case this morning.

    District Attorney Patrick Dougherty said he had no estimate of when the Superior Court would return a ruling on whether the death penalty could be imposed in the case.

    It appears likely that the case will be prosecuted by Robert Manzi, who was elected Nov. 5 to serve as district attorney beginning in January.

    https://www.indianagazette.com/news/...d103e0296.html
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    BRIEFS FILED IN PRICE APPEAL

    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 2 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 2 counts of 2nd degree murder and is serving 2 life terms in state prison without the chance at parole.

    A 3rd defendant, Isaiah Scott, was 17 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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    PRICE DUE FOR SECOND STATUS CONFERENCE

    By wccsradio.com

    Among a busy court schedule today is another status conference for the homicide case against Nathaniel Price, the 25-year-old man charged in connection with the murders of a Cherryhill Township couple in October 2016.

    Price and co-defendant Justin Stephenson were both charged with the murders of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink during a marijuana sale between Garder and the two defendants. During the deal, Gardner was beaten in a robbery attempt, while Brink was killed due to her being a witness at the scene.

    Stephenson pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in August 2018 and is serving life in prison without the chance of parole, a sentence which he is appealing. A third defendant, Isaiah Scott, had his case handled in juvenile probation. He was not involved in the actual murders.

    Today’s status conference is scheduled for 2 PM before President Judge Thomas Bianco. Jury selection and his trial are both set to begin in early November.

    https://www.wccsradio.com/2023/08/11...us-conference/
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    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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