Pre-Gaming Today’s Motions Hearing
At Tuesday’s 2:00pm motions hearing, Judge Michael Rankin will more than likely hear arguments on one of the most pressing issues that has hung over the civil trial’s discovery process – the plaintiff’s repeated attempts to get the defendants to answer questions (as many as 500) in written form via roggs,...
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Breaking News
Mark your calendars. We’re going back to Moultrie, Moultrie, Moultrie…
Event Scheduled Event Scheduled
Event: Motion Hearing
Date: 04/19/2011 Time: 2:00 pm
Judge: RANKIN, MICHAEL L Location: Courtroom 517
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Defense Sticks to their 5th Amendment Claims
In response to repeated Plaintiff motions to get the three Swann Street defendants to answer deposition and interrogatory questions, the defense filed their Joint Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Answers to Requests for Admission and Interrogatories.
Or in shorthand, Get Bent Ben.
One two seperate occasions since the first of...
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A Depo Witness is in Florida. A Defendant is in DC?
It appears that it’s not just the Defendants who want to keep mum during depositions in the Wone civil trial. The DC Attorney General’s Office wants to hem in the testimony of a key witness, former MPD Detective Bryan Waid. A month ago, the...
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Plaintiffs Continue to Work for Answers
This may be the first occasion in this case in which we see a filing that uses the word, “irony.”
Entered this week is the Plaintff’s Motion to Compel Answers to Requests for Admission and Interrogatories. According to Covington, the Swann Street defendants, “declined to admit, deny, plead insufficient information, or otherwise answer,...
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Leibovitz Said No. Will Rankin Say Yes?
A couple new Plaintiff filings hit the clerk’s office late on Friday afternoon.
The first one we’ll look at seems straight-forward enough, a Supplement to Rule 16(b)(2) List of fact Witnesses.
Had we tagged out posts better over the past 2+ years, finding information on James Plante would be easier - but...
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Defense Responds to MPD Oppo to turn over Records
On behalf of the three Swann Street defendants, Price co-counsel Brett Buckwalter and Craig Roswell have finally replied to the DC Attorney General’s opposition to turn over DC MPD records, notes and materials as part of the discovery and depo process.
In a March 1st Motion to...
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Detective Waid’s Deposition
The consent motion for former DC Detective Bryan Waid to be deposed in Florida for the Wone civil case, was ordered by Judge Michael Ranking this week.
Waid led the early investigation and was on the scene at 1509 Swann Street on the night of Robert’s murder, and also managed a good portion...
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Plaintiffs Release their List of Expert Witnesses
Both sides are still meeting their Court imposed deadlines as the long march to the October 17 trial date continues.
Hitting the DC Superior Court Clerk’s office last week was the Plaintiff’s Rule 26(B)(4) Statement. These are the expert witnesses that Covington and Patrick Regan intend to call upon for testimony this fall.
Two of the...
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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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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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