Month: June 2010

Opening Statements: Defense

Team Swann Returns Fire After AUSA Glenn Kirchner’s lengthy opening statement on May 17, the defense team took over and in succession delivered passionate and relatively tight rebuttals to the prosecutor’s summary of the many allegations of tampering and cover…

Opening Statement: Kirschner

The Chief Lays Out His Case In Chief Maria Allison, RPR, retired last week as an Official Court Reporter for the DC Superior Court.  We think we know why she packed it in. Maria was at the keyboard on Monday, May…

Witness for the Prosecution

Government’s Motion Previews Upcoming Testimony When the trial resumes next week, and if the witnesses for prosecution deliver testimony according to the government’s recently filed notice of intent, then Glenn Kirschner, Rachel Carson Lieber and Patrick Martin will deliver the goods,…

Tooth Fairy

Defense Outlines M. Price’s Early Evening Activities on Aug. 2, 2006 Biding our time, and biting our nails, as we await for the trial to resume on Monday, we trotted over the courthouse to see if any more motions may…

What Did Victor Know…

…And When Did he Know it?   Parsing Zaborsky. Two minutes and forty-five seconds into Victor Zaborsky’s 911 call, the dispatcher asks him if Robert is still breathing, a question he repeats to the nearby Joe Price, who is providing the first-aid…

Catch-22 @ 1509

“Well, he died.  You don’t get any older than that.” Tara Adams Ragone, a close friend of both Robert and Joe Price from William and Mary days, testified last Wednesday.   Her testimony was loaded and her credibility seemed solid. Herself a lawyer,…

All-Star Break

Max Out Depending on the amount of information coming in, the first three weeks of the trial have either felt like treading water or swimming against the current.   While trying to keep our heads above water, a few housekeeping tasks…

State of Sleep?

Could Robert have slept though everything that night? For nearly four years, and especially after the original affidavit was published, the state of mind of the defendants on the night of the murder has been discussed ad nauseum.  The basis…

Dept. Of Corrections

Illuminating the Dark Days Some comments have come in from distraught readers, some of the newbies, who wonder how they’ll get through the next ten days without trial news.  The answer is simple:  do what the old -timers here have been…

Day 13: Updates

12:00 Noon Update Word just came in from DC Superior Court Public Information Officer, Leah Gurowitz, that today’s 1:45pm afternoon session has been spiked.  The trial resumes Monday morning, June 14.  Until then, we’ll catch our breaths and do our…