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Jury deliberates in prostitute murder trial

Chad Johnson is led out of Fifth Precinct

Photo credit: Newsday/James Carbone | Chad Johnson is led out of Fifth Precinct in Patchogue. (May 25, 2010)

A Suffolk County jury on Friday continued deliberations in the second-degree murder trial of Chad Johnson, the 23-year-old Medford man accused of strangling a prostitute and burying her in a shallow grave near his home in 2010.

Jurors had reread to them the testimony of Deputy Suffolk Medical Examiner Dr. Hajar Sims-Child, who conducted the autopsy on 26-year old Jennifer Papain's partially...

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