How Kirschner Pushes Back the Miranda Charges
In a week from now, we may know the outcome of two of the defendants’ key pleadings before Judge Lynn Leibovitz; namely their motions to sever and hold three seperate trials and their motions to suppress their statements to MPD detectives from the night of the crime.
Leibovitz may rule...
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Closing Night for Severance?
Early into last Friday’s status hearing we learned of a letter that Joe Price counsel Bernie Grimm had sent (also on behalf of his three defense team colleagues) to Judge Lynn Leibovitz.
Long described as one of the “great courtroom showmen,” DC’s very own George M. Cohan fired off this one-page letter on...
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Govt’s Streamlined Case Up Ends the C.W. Who Wins and Loses?
Friday’s status hearing revealed that the government was “winnowing” their case as the May 10 trial date draws near.
By dropping many of the uncharged conducted aspects and focusing only on the charges against the defendants, the government dramatically changed the contours of the trial.
With this...
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Government Turns Over Discovery Information
Last week, the government laid out their blueprint for the prosecution of this case. Now, in the most recent filing, AUSA Glenn Kirschner opened up his toolbox to reveal just how he will accomplish his task.
What is curious is this discovery summary isn’t part of the public record (yet) and only showed up...
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Uncharged Conduct, and Michael Price Uncharged…Yet
Hewing to Judge Lynn Leibovitz’ scheduling order, the prosecution has met their first deadline. The government’s filing of “Uncharged Conduct I” was due on February 5th and was made public Tuesday, Feb. 16th… just a few days after Valentine’s Day. This was no Whitman’s Sampler to the defendants.
“Given the...
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Points On The Board
Just four months from today, barring no last-minute delays or penalty flags, Judge Lynn Leibovitz will gavel in the trial in which defendants Joe Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky face charges of obstruction of justice, crime scene tampering, and most damning – conspiracy.
Try as he might, Glenn Kirschner - chief of the Homicide...
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The Man with the Fu Manchu Beard
While it has been rather easy to track information about the Swann Street Defendants’ counsel, after all criminal defense attorneys need the publicity, it has not been nearly as simple locating solid information about the prosecution.
There is no resume posted at the U.S. Attorney’s office Web site, nor...
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What Sept. 11th’s Transcript Foretells of Nov. 6th’s Hearing
At 54 pages, the transcript of September 11th’s status hearing may seem a dry read. “53 pages too much of legal jaw-boning…” perhaps. But text is important. Text is memory made real. And like a great dramatic work, while drained of its live human electricity, the...
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Document Dump
Now as promised, the rest of the motions filed over the past couple months.
So far these have yielded MPD Officer Diane Durham’s statement that refutes Joe Price’s known explanation of where he found Robert’s body; Detective Brian Waid’s handwritten notes and Detective Jeffrey Folts’ riff , channeling Kerouac*, his notes on his late night, crosstown journey with...
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Where is Square One?
You’ve likely been there before. Trying to explain this case to a friend, you rattle off its evidentiary twists and legal turns. Their reaction: bewilderment.
You can hardly blame them. The Robert Wone case is head-spinning even for those well versed in the law.
So imagine the difficulty the four of us –...
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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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