Month: February 2011

Non-Answer Answers?

Defendants Provide Answers to Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint On September 29, Covington’s Ben Razi entered a Consent Motion for Leave to Amend Complaint. In lieu of answering many of the specific allegations of the Complaint in these February 24 filings, defendants Price, Ward and Zaborsky once…

Prior Restraint(s)?

Is Razi Ramping Up Evidence on Defendants’ Sexual Histories?  Hitting the Superior Court clerk’s office on the same day as the Defense Preliminary List of Fact Witnesses for the October Robert Wone wrongful death case, was the companion filing from the…

Holder For The Defense

Blowing Smoke? On February 14, opposing counsel in the Wone civil case exchanged Valentines.  Well, not really, let’s call them salvos.  Meeting the designated Court deadline to exchange Lists of Fact Witness, both sides filed their paper on Monday.  Today…

Compelling Arguments

Spagnoletti Responds to Razi on 5th Amendment Two weeks ago, the Plaintiffs filed their Motion to Compel Deposition Testimony.  Covington was not getting the answers they wanted from defendants Price, Ward and Zaborsky.  In fact, they weren’t getting any answers…

Waid-ing for the End

Defense Requests Deposition from Lead Detective Bryan Waid Do you remember Bryan Waid? The Defense certainly hasn’t forgotten him. In the MPD interrogation videos, otherwise known as the  Anacostia Dialogues, MPD Detective Bryan Waid was the most sympathetic of the questioners on the morning…

Knowns and Unknowns

What Are We Not Asking That We Should? If there was a list of people you might not expect to turn up on this site, Donald Rumsfeld might be near the top. We expect he would be just as surprised…

The Decemberists

January Hymn:  The Status Hearing Transcript  The final exhibit attached to the Plaintiff Motion to Compel is the transcript from the December 8 status hearing, the last that Judge Brook Hedge was to preside over before she turned the reins and gavel…

5th Amendment: Round II

What We Have Here, is a Failure to Communicate Wasn’t it just the other day that we remarked how slow the paper chase in the Wone case was going?   There had been no new filings since early December, and little…