The Nation - News from March 18, 1988

A judge warned jurors to keep their emotions in check as they began deliberations in the murder trial of Robert Chambers, a young prep school graduate who says he accidentally killed his lover in New York’s Central Park during rough sex. Chambers, 21, is charged with second-degree murder in the strangulation of Jennifer Levin, 18, whose bruised and nearly nude body was found behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The jury deliberated for six hours before recessing and was to resume this morning. Judge Howard Bell cautioned the jurors to hold their emotions in check when they consider pictures of Levin’s body. “You might find some of them grim, unpleasant or whatever, but they’ve been entered into evidence and I charge you, when you view them, please do so unemotionally,” Bell said.