Month: March 2010

Blood Simple

Defense Rips The Bark Off Kirschner’s Experts What evidence don’t these guys want spiked?  Wow. Just into the DC Superior Court Clerk’s office (don’t all the posts these days seem to start that  way?) is the latest defense motion:  Defendants’ Joint Motion In…

Hocus Pocus

Kirschner Pulls A Couple Rabbits Out Of His Hat With the May trial looming just weeks away, we’re trying to stay current with the latest motions and filings.  Not always easy given the challenges posed by DC’s stone age system…

Clerks

How Kirschner Pushes Back the Miranda Charges In a week from now, we may know the outcome of two of the defendants’ key pleadings before Judge Lynn Leibovitz; namely their motions to sever and hold three seperate trials and their…

Rare Saturday Post

Government In Action We’re getting close to Go Time.  We have every reason to believe the trial will be gaveled in on time, just about five weeks from now on May 10.  Both sides have been following Judge Leibovitz’ scheduling…

Chinese Handcuffs

New Evidence of an Interest in Asian Men? Disclaimer: This post is MSFW – Mostly Safe For Work. When the prosecution admitted they were dropping much of the sexual assault evidence at trial their stated reason was an “evolving” opinion. …

Swann Street Confidential

Returning To The Scene Of The Crime. Nearly four years after Robert’s murder and the 1500 block of Swann Street is abuzz once again.  But not how you think. Long gone are those sultry summer days when Swann was thick…

Swann Street Confidential

Returning To The Scene Of The Crime. Nearly four years after Robert’s murder and the 1500 block of Swann Street is abuzz once again.  But not how you think. Long gone are those sultry summer days when Swann was thick…

It Just So Happened…

Coincidences Or Puzzle Pieces?   Among the many puzzling aspects about the murder of Robert Wone is the surprisingly high number of coincidences that all managed to converge on the night of August 2, 2006.  Even with the government dropping much of their…

Standing Room Only

Closing Night for Severance? Early into last Friday’s status hearing we learned of a letter that Joe Price counsel Bernie Grimm had sent (also on behalf of his three defense team colleagues) to Judge Lynn Leibovitz. Long described as one of the…

Another "Michael"?

There are no secrets on the Internet In documents filed recently and in Friday’s status hearing, Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner once again brought up Michael Price, Joe’s brother, as a person close to the defendants. Kirschner confirmed that evidence associated with…