FINAL: 8:30pm – Testimony from Kathy Wone, RFA, 1507 Neighbors and the EMT
Today’s updates were a little thin due to few and very short breaks called by Judge Lynn Leibovitz. To make up for the short updates, this will be a thorough readout on the day’s proceedings.
The session kicked off at 9:45am with Kathy...
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Kathy Wone
Day 2: Wrap
Day 2: Updates
4:45pm Update:
Court adjourned at 4:40pm. The afternoon session heard Zaborsky’s 911 call and the testimony of attending EMT, Jeff Baker, first on the scene at Swann Street.
Recap post goes up around 6:30pm
3:25pm Update:
After the lunch break, testifying was the next door neighbor who heard “the scream.” William Thomas and his wife Claudia, of 1507...
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Mystery Science Theater
Ethereal vs. Visceral
In the not to distant future, eight weeks from yesterday to be exact (assuming no continuance), Judge Lynn Leibovitz gavels in United States vs. Joseph Price, Dylan Ward, Victor Zaborsky
In yesterday’s post on the Government’s Opposition to the Defendants’ Joint Motion to Compel Rule 16(a)(1)(e) Disclosures, we got a clearer picture of what...
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Sunshine State
Bienvenido a Miami
In the years following Robert’s murder, Florida seemed to be calling out to the Swann Street defendants. Dylan Ward moved down to Wilton Manors, Ft. Lauderdale’s gay enclave in the fall of 2007 to work at a massage parlour.
Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky purchased their $715, 000 Miami Shores home in June...
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Civil War
The Maryland Campaign
Late Friday afternoon, Mike Scarcella of the Legal Times had news on the latest skirmish in Kathy Wone’s $20 million wrongful death civil suit.
Any small victory the defendants may have felt following Judge Weisberg’s September status hearing in the criminal case was likely beat back by Judge Brook Hedge, sitting in the civil...
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The Grand Jury
First Movement
Three weeks to the day after Robert’s murder, the Washington Post was leaked information about grand jury testimony that was taking place:
Katherine Wone, 35, wife of Robert Wone, testified for more than an hour about “her interaction with the three guys in the house, both immediately after the incident and the days that followed,”...
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It's A Date…
Two Weeks Before Robert Wone’s Murder…
Three years ago this week, on or about July 19, 2006, Robert began making plans to stay the night at a friend’s house in Washington, DC.
Last month Paul Duggan wrote in the Washington Post:
Earnest and meticulously efficient, Wone had planned about two weeks in advance to stay 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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- Was a settlement reached in the civil case? http://t.co/TyAsD3O
- Plaintiff counsel files amended expert witness list - and an old name from the investigation surfaces. http://wp.me/pVtne-4T4
- Results of yesterday's status non-hearing. A judge's order and a surprise visitor http://wp.me/pVtne-4SC
- 1509 Swann Street open house: Visiting the scene of the murder. Do Defendants' statements defy physics? Reason? http://wp.me/pVtne-4S4
- A look ahead at Tuesday's motion hearing in Wone civil: 5th Amendment is front and center, MPD efforts to quash too. http://wp.me/pVtne-4Q5