Preppie Case Jurors Revisit Site of Slaying
The jury deliberating the fate of prep school graduate Robert Chambers Jr., accused of murder during a tryst in Central Park, joined him Saturday on an unannounced visit to the site where he says he accidentally strangled Jennifer Levin.
The four-woman, eight-man panel milled around the crab apple grove behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art for about 40 minutes in the morning before resuming deliberations in state Supreme Court in Manhattan for a third day without reaching a verdict, court officials said.
Chambers, 21, faces two counts of second-degree murder in the Aug. 26, 1986, death of Levin, 18.
Chambers admits killing her, but he claimed in a graphic videotaped statement that he accidentally choked her during rough sex.
He faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison if convicted. But the jury may consider lesser charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
The panel also had visited the grove on March 4 at the request of defense attorneys during the 11-week trial.
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