Month: April 2009

A Look Ahead To Friday's Hearing

From The WMRW.COM Breaking News Desk (Updated) Thanks to our stringer CDinDC for alerting us to this Legal Times story filed earlier this afternoon by Mike “Mad Dog” Scarcella who obtained the 26 page government response to the defendants’ joint motion…

Joe the Plumber

Hit The Showers The closer we look at the affidavit one thing becomes clear; Joe and Victor certainly appear guilty of overpaying for a house with so many problems. Dylan Ward’s account of the “chitchat” that he, Price and Wone engaged in…

…To Sleep, Perchance…

But Who Knows What Dreams May Come? We’ve been parsing the original affidavit lately, hunting for things perhaps overlooked, trying to fit together the pieces of Robert Wone’s murder. Among the more difficult pieces to explain is the reaction of…

Reading Beatween The Lines

Billable Hours We see some great comments and are grateful for the many contributions.  There’s a little bit of everything: sound analysis, strong opinions, sharp teeth, sass  and the occasional limerick.  But every now and again a comment just jumps off the…

It's a Particular Friday

We Know What Day It Is.  Do The Legal Teams? Today, April 17th, is the prosecution’s self imposed deadline to respond to the defendant’s Bill of Particulars.  When the government  missed the first deadline on March 13th, defense argued that they had conceded.  Prosecution…

Fellow Travelers

Left, Right and Center We’ve inherited a number of readers from a teriffic site; proteinwisdom.com contributor Dan Collins saw us mentioned by Paglia and then wrote a provocative piece on the Wone case shortly after.  You may also have seen some of his smart takes…

The Long Hot Summer

For Tonight’s Forecast We Go To Dylan Ward On The Weather Desk There’s no end to the minutia that one can trawl through in the original affidavit for Dylan Ward’s arrest.  Until the discovery phase and the ruling on the Bill of Particulars,…

New Math

It Doesn’t Add Up, Mr. Kirschner  (Updated) We’re 10 days away from the April 24 status conference in front of Judge Frederick Weisberg.   And there may be no better time to begin a microscopic examination of the many inconsistencies, anomalies and…

The Hair And The Fingerprint

Evidence That Could Support The Defense? In the Defense’s consolidated request for discovery, they note the government failed to indicate whether elimination testing for various hairs recovered from 1509 Swann Street was conducted.  This includes a hair found on top…

It's Reality Show Clip Time

A Look Back For Our New Friends For reasons we understand (a shout-out Wednesday from Camille Paglia) and for those we don’t, we know we’ve drawn large new audiences this week.   The surge started Monday and has continued.  Whatever the…