Second Day Of Deliberations In Trial Of Woman Charged In Connection With Assault On Same-Sex Couple
By Steve Tawa
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Another day - more questions - but no verdict in the assault trial of a Bucks County woman charged in the 2014 gay bashing incident in Center City.
Jurors will return Friday morning for more deliberations.
So far the jury has put in about 10 hours of deliberations over two days, and the questions Thursday centered on two of the charges - recklessly endangering another person and conspiracy.
Jurors asked whether non-physical actions - specifically whether language used to incite - constitutes recklessly endangering. Some of the witnesses testified they heard 25-year-old Kathryn Knott scream anti-gay slurs, as two of her male friends accosted and assaulted the gay couple. Those men pleaded guilty to assault charges and received probation.
Judge Roxanne Covington read aloud to them definitions of reckless endangerment, conspiracy and accomplice liability. They also were furnished individual copies on those sections of the law.
The day before, jurors re-looked at fragmented cell phone video from witnesses who happened on the scene of the confrontation. They show the chaos at 16th and Chancellor Streets, but not the actual attack on two men.
Jurors also reviewed police statements from some of the witnesses who testified during the four day trial of Knott.
Knott also faces two counts each of aggravated and simple assault for her alleged role in the confrontation when her group of 15 men and women happened upon the gay couple.
