HAMPSHIRE TRIAL GOES TO JURY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer

Ballston Spa Jeffrey Hampshire may have showed no respect when he helped hide the strangled body of an elderly grandmother in the snow and then pawned her stolen jewelry, but he's not a murderer, a defense lawyer told a jury Wednesday.

While his actions ``didn't seem to bother him much, it doesn't make him nice and it doesn't make him good, but it doesn't make him a murderer,'' attorney Cheryl F. Coleman said in closing remarks.

On the contrary, Assistant District Attorney Richard Wendling said evidence proves there is little doubt Hampshire acted as an accomplice with his former girlfriend, Katherine Seeber, in …