ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The attorney for the man accused of killing Thomas and Angela Strussion argued in court that visits by the eventual jury to four cell towers that pinged the defendant’s phone and to the house where the Strussions were killed were unnecessary.

Kate Clark — the attorney for Andrew Isaac Griffin, who is accused of murdering both Strussions — objected to a motion made by Belmont County Prosecutor Kevin Flanagan to visit the sites.

“We believe that it would be prudent,” Flanagan said of his request. “We believe that it would assist the jurors in seeing where the towers that we will ultimately be presenting through the course of testimony and evidence on the video board, where the towers are actually located.”

Clark told Belmont County Common Pleas Judge Chris Berhalter she

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