Posted on Tue, Aug. 18, 2009
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
In what proved to be a logistical challenge for Philadelphia sheriff's deputies and SEPTA police, the jury in the subway beating trial spent about 10 minutes underground touring the concourse along the 13th Street station of the Market-Frankord Subway Elevated line where Sean Patrick Conroy was assaulted and died.
The 14 Common Pleas Court jurors moved solemnly through the crime scene, accompanied by Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart, prosecution and defense attorneys while reporters and the three teens and charged in Conroy's death, flanked by deputies, lined both walls of the corridor.
The group then moved back across the street to the Criminal Justice Center to resume testimony with the defense questioning of Raheem Bell.
Bell, 17, has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and conspiracy charges and testified for the prosecution yesterday during the first day of the trial of Kinta Stanton, 17; Nashir Fisher, 17, and Ameer Best, 18, in the March 26, 2008 unprovoked attack the resulted in Conroy's death from a stress-induced asthma attack.
Contact Joseph A. Slobodzian at 215-854-2985 or jslobodzian@phillynews.com.
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