Month: April 2010

Wild About Harry

A Year In The Making Joining Paul Duggan’s masterful two-part Washington Post series on Robert’s murder from last June, is another must-read for every case watcher’s bookshelf. In the May issue of Washingtonian Magazine, veteran DC journalist Harry Jaffe has penned an…

Family Matters

New Bits – And Old Hits – In The Prosecution’s Playlist  More paper filed in advance of this Friday’s status hearing means more late night reading.  On the nightstand currently:  “Reply In Support Of Defendants’ Motion In Limine To Exclude…

Fiber Optics

Government Conducting Additional Tests; Defense Seeks to Limit Results In the most recent filing in the Robert Wone case, we learn that, as recently as March 24, 2010, the government has been conducting experiments to bolster their evidence of tampering and…

Beyond Marriage

Does Price’s Fair-Weather Activism Demonstrate Hypocrisy, More? In 2004, USA Today showered Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky and the lesbian couple to whom each of them donated sperm to conceive children with a splashy write-up about gay families during the run- up to the Bush Adminstration’s…

Media Advisory

Start The Presses As a rule, we purposely don’t reveal much information regarding readership or statistics.  Honoring the anonymity and confidentiality of users has always been a chief concern, and that’s worked pretty well.  For the more outgoing readers, we owe a serious…

Advice and Consent

Zaborsky Withdraws Motion to Suppress An interesting consent motion ran across the clerk’s desk late Friday afternoon, but because the District of Columbia was celebrating Emancipation Day the Courthouse was closed.  And perhaps ironically, this filing may be evidence of…

Big Love

Did the Third Degree Miss the Cracks on  Swann Lake? Cue the Big Band music from HBO’s Big Love, but instead of Bill Paxton, out skates Arent Fox partner Joe Price onto Swann Lake.  Price offers his left hand and Victor Zaborsky joins…

The Third Degree: Ward

Ward’s Transcript: Good Cop, Bad Cop…and Homophobe Cop Q: I don’t believe we’re getting the truth here. A: Everyone keeps telling me that. We’ve read transcripts of Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky’s ‘voluntary’ statements to the MPD the night of Robert…

The Third Degree: Zaborsky

Victor Zaborsky’s MPD Interview Transcript In contrast to the sometimes meandering interview of his domestic partner, Joe Price, Victor Zaborsky seemed to choose his words far more carefully as he spoke to DC MPD detectives on the night of Robert’s murder. …

Gorilla Dust

Kicking Up Distractions Before the Court.  Why It Matters In modern times it dates back to December 15th, 1991.  H. Ross Perot – remember him? – then a member of the General Motors board, parried with GM CEO Roger Smith’s…