A West Philadelphia handyman was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for murder in the July 15 rape and strangulation of Drexel University graduate Jasmine Wright. Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge James M. DeLeon ordered James Harris held after a sometimes tumultuous preliminary hearing in which Harris' lawyers, Thurgood M. Matthews and Geoffrey Kilroy, argued there was not enough circumstantial evidence to justify trial. Assistant District Attorney Gail Fairman called the defense...
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