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Witness: Conroy ignored advice not to beat people up

Quick ReadTeen who stayed behind says he told the group not to carry out a plan to go to Patchogue looking for victims.

File - Jeffrey Conroy, standing next to his

Photo credit: Newsday File / James Carbone | File - Jeffrey Conroy, standing next to his lawyer Bill Keahon, pleads not guilty to additional charges brought against him on Feb. 2, 2009.

Jason Moran said he warned Jeffrey Conroy and six other teenagers not to go to Patchogue in search of people to beat up, the Medford teenager testified Friday in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead.

"We were all telling them it's not a good idea - 'You shouldn't do that,' " Moran said on the second day of testimony in Conroy's murder and manslaughter trial. "They kind of just blew it off, like,...

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