Monday Movie Matinee
This installment of the Joe Price Anacostia Dialogue is actually the last thirty minutes of his final hour-long interview during the mid-morning hours after Robert’s murder.
Reliable reader Gloria helped us out with the time stamps on this and the earlier segment.
This interview began in the 9:00am hour, well after the so called “Mercedes meeting.” ...
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What ‘State of Mind’ Do The Emails Suggest?
Emails, cards, letters, telephone calls.
Through much of the trial (and a fair amount of lead-up to it) we heard repeatedly from prosecutors that these records would reveal important information as to Price, Ward and Zaborsky’s ’state of mind’ around the time of Robert’s murder. For her part,...
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Breaking: Judge Denies Defendants’ Motion to Seal Filings
Aren’t the Dog Days supposed to be slow news days as well? Apparently not.
Yesterday, Judge Brook Hedge lifted the seal on the motions regarding the plaintiff’s request to pull the defendants’ Verizon phone and email records.
The defense argued to keep them under a tight lid on privacy...
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Another Day, Another Revelation – UPDATED 12:30pm ET
> Just made available, the public document that accompanied the most recent plaintiff filing, embedded after the jump.
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Another document hit the clerk’s office late last week, and despite Judge Brook Hedge’s order that sealed filings be accompanied by a public document, this one has no such companion. Her language was clear:
“ORDERED...
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A Trial Lawyer’s Perspective: The Wone Civil Trial & Shakespeare
Our thanks to regular reader Bruce for today’s guest post. An attorney himself and noted contrarian on this case and evidence, Bruce talks about what to expect at the civil trial including the lawyerly theatrics.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They...
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Thursday Tea Time Movie Matinee
Joe Price’s recorded interview with DC police at the Ancacostia Violent Crimes Branch detectives began with a phone call.
Detective Bryan Waid escorted Price into the cramped interrogation room with Victor Zaborsky in tow.
Zaborsky was scooted out to a separate holding room while Price took a seat and answered his cel phone. ...
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Court to Nix Dix Pix ?
We may have a clearer picture of the skirmish over the plaintiff’s motion to pull the defendants’ phone and email records from Verizon.
The defense objected, citing privacy, and asked for all related documents to remain sealed. Yesterday, Judge Brook Hedge sided with the defense and ruled they will stay locked...
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Judge Brook Hedge Releases Scheduling Order
A number of documents have hit the clerk’s office in the last day; several pertain to the plaintiff motion to subpoena the Price, Ward and Zaborsky phone and e-mail records and the subsequent defense objections on privacy grounds and their efforts to keep related motions sealed:
08/16/2010 Order Sealing Filings Regarding Plaintiff’s Motion For...
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What Could Possibly be in There?
Last Monday, the defense motioned to seal the plaintiff’s motion to subpoena the Price, Ward and Zaborsky phone and e-mail records from Verizon. Now, taking that one step further, the defense has moved towards the wholesale opposition of the plaintiffs even getting a look at the records.
This just into the...
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Both Sides Work Towards a Trial Date
The first order of business for Judge Brook Hedge in the wrongful death civil suit was to set some deadlines going forward. She wanted to see each side’s proposed scheduling orders by August 6.
They’ve been submitted. Today, August 13, marks another deadline: due is the Defendants’ Responses to Plaintiff’s...
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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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