Author: Craig

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…

Tool Box

Judge Brook Hedge’s Lasting Legacy? Our jobs just got a little bit easier.  In fact, anyone in DC or beyond who wants to track the paper chase of either Superior Court criminal or civil cases, has a better tool to…

HomicideWatch

Life and Death on the DC Streets  UPDATED:  Annys Shin’s WaPo piece on HomicideWatch can be found here. There’s a new murder site on the Interwebs:  A DC specific destination that goes on beyond the simple charge that wmrw has. Whereas…

Ranking Rankin

Reporting Last Week’s News Today  It’s official. Judge Michael Rankin is to inherit the caseload of retiring Judge Brook Hedge.  And along with that comes the Wone case and October 2011 trial.  As it appears on the DC Superior Court website:…

In The Beginning

First Night(s) Over the past three years we’ve heard from a number of people who lived on Swann Street at the time of Robert’s murder.  Many of them still do. Almost all vividly remember the night of August 2, 2006 and…

2 Down, 1 To Go

The Long, Strange Trip Continues There may be no better time than the holiday slows and the two-year anniversary of the site to take stock of what’s happened and what lays ahead.   A year from now the civil trial will be over.  We joked…

Let Regan Be Regan

White Shoes and Black Hats? Ten years ago the American Civil Trial Bar Roundtable published a white paper (later revised in 2006) that addressed how the “Lack of respect and confidence seems to have developed in the public’s mind for the trial practice…”   …

Last Minute Gift?

For Sale, No Sale or Sold?  According to a large real estate display add in the local community paper, The DuPont Current, 1509 Swann Street is still up for sale and it remains listed at $1,599,000.  Quite a stocking stuffer.…

Washington Merry-Go-Round

“Who’s on First?  What’s on Second?” It’s a feature of DC Superior Court, and perhaps with other jurisdictions for all we know, that judicial calendars rotate annually.  Stick around these parts long enough and you get to see this play…