PORTSMOUTH — Jurors in the negligent homicide trial of Vincenzo Panetta toured the city's High-Hanover parking garage Oct. 21, two-plus years after the fatal fall of Rochester resident Zachary Colbroth from the structure after an alleged confrontation at the Portsmouth Gas Light Co. and ensuing assault.
Colbroth was 28.
Panetta, 26, is the first of two suspects to go on trial, along with Andrew Lucas , who is also now 26. He and his defense attorney, Mark Sisti, and prosecutors walked with the jury through the garage and along surrounding downtown streets in the morning, shortly before opening arguments in the case were set to commence in Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood.
At 9:15 a.m., jurors, along with Panetta, Sisti and the prosecutors, entered the Gas Light for