The Nation - News from March 23, 1988

Before retiring, jurors deliberating for a sixth day the fate of a prep school graduate charged with strangling a teen-ager during a tryst in Central Park concentrated on how long it took the woman to die. The New York state Supreme Court jury sent out a note, asking to rehear testimony about one sign of asphyxiation--hemorrhages in the eyes of 18-year-old victim Jennifer Levin. The note prompted a heated bench conference among lawyers and the judge. Justice Howard E. Bell agreed to allow reading of testimony by one prosecution witness and one defense witness. Robert Chambers, 21, has been charged in the Aug. 26, 1986, death.