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 again fall back on 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
Collectively, the three admit to only a handful of...
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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 Plaintiff. Submitted by Katherine Wone’s lead counsel, Covington’s Ben Razi, the list runs 36 names.
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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 – the three near-identical lists submitted by the defense for Price, Ward and Zaborsky; next...
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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 they argue, to even the most seemingly innocuous depo questions.
Ben Razi argued that the defendants were...
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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 of August 3rd. He allowed long period of silences between his questions to Joe Price; allowing...
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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 to pop up here as well.
But the former Secretary of Defense, now author, is back...
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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 over to her colleague Michael Rankin.
Those attending the proceding will remember the day, unseasonably cold...
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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 or no activity according to the Court database.
Late yesterday afternoon, a four page filing trickled in. ...
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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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