Just a Few Short Blocks Away Down 15th Street… (Updated Again)
Paul Duggan (and Meg Smith) unload a solid piece of work here. Part 2 here.
The transcript of Mr. Duggan’s online chat is here. Topics covered: Sarah Morgan, Michael Price, Phelps Collins, the BlackBerry, Ketamine, Culuket, Alt.com, the intruder theory, Blackwater and the civil suit.
There is a lot to...
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June 1, 1974
Monday was to have been Robert’s 35th birthday. On June 7, 2003, less than a week after his 29th birthday, a simple rendition of one of his favorite songs was played as his bride Kathy walked down the aisle. Just over three years later it was heard again, this time at the conclusion...
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The Washington Post Set to Splash (Updated)
Page one of the Metro section in Sunday’s Washington Post promotes a washingtonpost.com exclusive investigation of the Wone murder entitled “Murder on Swann Street.”
The above-the-fold tease:
“In a fashionable Dupont Circle home on a sweltering midsummer evening in 2006, a successful young lawyer named Robert Wone, an overnight guest,...
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Bernie Grimm’s High Q Score
Joe Price’s defense attorney Bernie Grimm is considered by colleagues as one of the “great courtroom showmen.” But his performances extend well beyond the courthouse and into millions of homes.
As reported here, Bernie appeared off his game at the May 22 status hearing, less a showman and more a showstopper. Confusion over discovery documents between he...
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It’s About Time…
Yesterday, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty broke ground on a new warehouse in Southwest DC to control evidence for the Metropolitain Police Department.
Why this matters? Supposed spoilation and loss of evidence in the current DC warehouse appears to be the norm, not the exception. In the next few months we’ll know how this unprofessional and inexcusable mismanagement of evidence...
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T Minus 350
May 10, 2010. There was an appreciable murmur in the courtroom when Judge Weisberg announced the date. Two months for the trial and deliberation means the verdict could come down close to the 4th anniversary of Robert’s murder.
Ben Razi, Kathy Wone’s attorney summed it up saying that “continued delays are upsetting.” The Wone family has...
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What Do You Give The Man Who Has…
Dylan Ward, or as he’s known to those in the DC criminal justice system and at Superior Court as CF1-026996, celebrates his 39th birthday today.
There was no way we’d let this day go by without sharing. We’re sometimes tardy, but we never forget. 39 years old; the Jack Benny birthday. ...
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Erik Prince Trumps Kathy Wone
>> Updated throughout; Additional Video
The good news: Judge Frederick Weisberg finally got around to setting a trial date in the matter of U.S. v. Price, Ward and Zaborsky. The not so good news: it’s a year away on May 10, 2010. Does anyone’s Outlook calender even go that far into the...
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Dateline: Moultrie Courthouse
Judge Frederick Weisberg sets trial date: May 10, 2010.
This is not a joke.
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Mike Scarcella Has The Details
Lawyers for three men charged in the Wone case are expected in D.C. Superior Court this afternoon to hash out discovery and evidence disputes in the cases against Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward.
The lawyers, Thomas Connolly, Bernie Grimm, and David Schertler, are expected to argue that the government...
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On August 2nd, 2006, Washington attorney Robert E. Wone was murdered at 1509 Swann Street. Over two years passed before any criminal charges were filed - and then only conspiracy, obstruction of justice and crime scene tampering charges were brought against the Swann Street housemates, all present in the home on the night of the murder: Joe Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky.
On May 17, 2010, a DC Superior Court trial got underway and all three defendants were all acquitted in that bench trial on those pending charges.
Nearly four years later, very little seems clear about what happened that night and who murdered Robert Wone. A cloud of suspicion remains over the Swann Street defendants who have denied any involvement in the murder of their friend or in the alleged cover up.
Judge Lynn Leibovitz found a moral certainty in their collective guilt, but not evidentiary certainty. Civil proceedings in a wrongful death suit filed by Robert's family is the next chapter in this tragic story.
We continue to work together seeking answers to the mystery of Robert Wone's murder and in finding justice for his memory and legacy.
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