A status conference will be held tomorrow for the homicide case against Nathanael Price, the 24-year-old man charged in the murders of a Cherryhill Township couple in October of 2016.
Price’s case has gone back and forth between Indiana County Common Pleas Court and the State Superior Court as the defense and prosecution wrangle over the use of evidence at the trial, specifically his cell phone records. After the Superior Court first reversed Judge Thomas Bianco’s ruling suppressing the records, the Supreme Court ordered it to reconsider absent the legal standard of “inevitable discovery”, and it subsequently upheld Bianco’s ruling, meaning the cell phone records can’t be used at trial.
Price and co-defendant Justin Stephenson were both charged with the murders of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink during a marijuana sale between Gardner and the two defendants. Stephenson pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree murder and is serving life in prison without the chance of parole. He is appealing. A third defendant, Isaiah Scott, had his case handled in juvenile probation. Scott was not involved in the actual murders.
Tomorrow’s status conference before Judge Bianco is scheduled for 2 PM. A trial date has not yet been set.
