4 held for trial in assault at Temple

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, August, 2008 | by JULIE SHAW shawj@phillynews.com 215-854-2592

A Common Pleas judge yesterday reinstated an aggravated-assault charge against four suspended Temple University students, who are also accused of yelling anti-Semitic slurs to two men outside a former Jewish fraternity house in February.

Judge Frank Palumbo also held the four men - David Scott, now 21, and his brother, Stephen Scott, 19, both of Willow Grove, Montgomery County; Michael Walsh, 20, of Florham Park, N.J.; and Bryan Pedreiro, now 19, of East Brunswick, N.J. - for trial on charges of ethnic intimidation, simple assault and conspiracy.

The four yesterday faced a second preliminary hearing.

At the first hearing, Municipal Judge Nazario Jimenez Jr. dismissed the aggravated-assault charge, but held the men for trial on the other charges.

The...