Case of Jogger Beating, Rape Goes to Jury : Trial: The prosecutor tells the Manhattan court that the three defendants took part in a ‘spree of uncontrolled violence.’

The bitterly contested Central Park jogger trial went to the jury late Wednesday after the prosecutor accused three teen-age defendants of participating in a “spree of uncontrolled violence,” that left a woman investment banker deserted, naked and bleeding in a puddle of her own blood.

“She bled for four hours. She lost three-fourths of her blood as she lay there naked and bleeding and unconscious,” prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer told the jury of 10 men and two women during closing arguments.

“Imagine what the attack on the jogger was like. Imagine the frenzy of these teen-agers as they gathered around her waiting to take their turn, grabbing at her, reaching, beating,” the assistant district attorney told the jury in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Antron McCray, 16, Yusef Salaam, 16, and Raymond Santana, 15, are charged with assault, rape, rioting and attempted murder for the attack on the woman jogger on April 19, 1989. They allegedly were members of a group of more than 30 black and Latino youths who roamed the park on a random crime spree, attacking nine people. The crime added the word wilding to the national vocabulary of violence and the trial has become a mainstay of news coverage in the city.

The defendants and their attorneys, who had presented closing arguments on Tuesday, listened quietly as Lederer spoke for four hours.

“Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana had their fun in Central Park,” she said. “Today, they have no one to blame for their predicament but themselves. They showed no sympathy and mercy for their victims or anyone else in their path.”

At one point during her summation, two loud claps rang out in the packed courtroom. They came from a group of the defendants’ supporters who included McCray’s parents, who then stormed out of the seventh-floor room. In a hallway, they held a prayer vigil, singing spiritual songs. Obviously angered by the outburst, Justice Thomas B. Galligan barred them from returning to the courtroom.

Lederer sought to refute closing arguments by defense lawyers that confessions by two of the defendants were coerced.

The prosecutor played portions of videotaped statments by Santana and McCray and urged the jury to view the tapes during their deliberations.

Lederer said that arguments that mud and blood were not found on the defendants’ clothing were irrelevant. She presented color pictures of the crime scene showing that the jogger was raped in a dry area of the park.

The prosecutor said the jogger had lost blood primarily from head wounds and the rapists were on top of her torso “touching her breasts.”

“She was not bleeding from her breasts,” Lederer said.

The prosecutor saved particular scorn for Salaam who took the witness stand on his own behalf during the trial. The tall, athletic looking teen-ager testified he became separated from the rest of the group of youths soon after entering the park because he grew tired.

“Yusef Salaam tells you in the space of four blocks he got so tired he lagged behind 49 other people. He lost sight of 49 other people,” Lederer said. “Did he leave the park? He is so tired, did he sit down and rest? He is so tired, he climbs a stone wall.

“He comes into the park with a 12-inch pipe and he forgets he had the pipe in his pocket,” Lederer continued before pausing for a minute.

“Poor tired Yusef Salaam who couldn’t keep up with his friends is charging around in the park with a pipe in his pocket,” she added, voice dripping with scorn. “That story makes no sense at all.”

The night of wilding resulted in “crimes against each person in the park that . . . were terrible,” she said. “The jogger will never be as she was on the night of April 19.”

The investment banker, after what physicians have termed a miraculous recovery, has returned to work at Salomon Bros. in Manhattan. But the residue of the attack remains clear: She has partial amnesia, multiple scars, trouble keeping her balance, no sense of smell and double vision.