2 Youths Found Guilty in Jogger Attack : Crime: One defendant is convicted of all charges, including attempted murder and rape. Pandemonium erupts as verdicts are read.

After 12 days of deliberation the jury in the second Central Park jogger assault and rape trial on Tuesday convicted the younger of the two teen-age defendants on all charges, including attempted murder and rape, but found his co-defendant guilty only on lesser counts.

The two youths--Kevin Richardson, 16, and Kharey Wise, 18--broke down in tears and members of their families shrieked in shock and anguish as the verdict was read in the seventh-floor courtroom in Manhattan state Supreme Court.

“Oh, my God!” cried one of Richardson’s sisters. “Kevin, it’s going to be OK! We love you!” Richardson’s mother, Grace Cuffey, gasped, “Oh, Lord,” and then fainted. She had to be revived at her seat by paramedics using oxygen. Another Richardson family member shouted an obscenity at lead prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer.

As Wise was escorted from the courtroom in handcuffs, he snarled at Lederer: “You’re going to pay for this! Jesus is going to get you!”

The pandemonium in the courtroom grew so intense that the judge ordered the space cleared before the jury could be polled. The anger spilled out into the streets as members of the defendants’ families and their supporters shouted, cursed and took swings at a crowd of news photographers and reporters.

Richardson and Wise are the second group of youths to be tried in last year’s wilding attack and gang rape of a 30-year-old investment banker as she was jogging alone at night in Central Park.

The case has been the subject of national attention and debate, with many black critics contending that it has received so much publicity only because the victim is an affluent white woman and her assailants were poor minority youths.

Three other youths--Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, all 16--were convicted Aug. 18 on rape, assault and related charges in the first trial stemming from the attack. They were sentenced to a juvenile maximum of five to 10 years in prison.

The sixth defendant, 16-year-old Steven Lopez, will be tried on the charges early next year.

Richardson and Wise were accused of being part of a gang of up to 30 youths who roamed Central Park on the night of April 19, 1989, and attacked nine people. The most seriously injured was the investment banker, who was left in a coma after her skull was broken in three places, her left cheekbone crushed and her brain damaged.

Richardson and Wise were charged with 13 counts of attempted murder, rape, sodomy, riot, sexual abuse, robbery and assault. Wise was found guilty only on three counts--riot, sexual abuse and first-degree assault.

Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 9. Richardson faces a maximum of five to 10 years in prison. Wise, who is the oldest of the six teen-agers indicted in the case and can be sentenced as an adult, could receive a maximum of 8 1/3 to 26 years if he serves the terms concurrently.

Attorneys for both young men said they would appeal the convictions.

In their closing arguments in the eight-week trial, the defense attorneys attempted to portray their clients as hapless victims of police and prosecutors engaged in a racist witch hunt for suspects in the jogger attack. The defendants, argued Wise’s lawyer, Colin Moore, “are the real victims in this case.”

In a videotaped confession that he later claimed he was coerced and deceived into making, Wise admitted that he had played with the victim’s leg during the sexual assault. “It was my first rape, and it will be my last,” he also said.

In her summation, Lederer, the lead prosecutor, urged the jury to reject the defense’s arguments.