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…
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Stonewall Uprising
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…
Plante Stand
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…
Quash Out
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…
Spag: Backseat Driver?
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…
Someone Old, Someone New
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…
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…