Defense Rips The Bark Off Kirschner’s Experts What evidence don’t these guys want spiked? Wow. Just into the DC Superior Court Clerk’s office (don’t all the posts these days seem to start that way?) is the latest defense motion: Defendants’ Joint Motion In…
Category: legal motions
Hocus Pocus
Kirschner Pulls A Couple Rabbits Out Of His Hat With the May trial looming just weeks away, we’re trying to stay current with the latest motions and filings. Not always easy given the challenges posed by DC’s stone age system…
Clerks
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…
Standing Room Only
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…
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…
To Compel or Not to Compel
Defendants Motion to Compel Discovery; Gov’t Replies: “Talk to the Hand” It must be getting closer to May. Hardly a day passes without another shower of paper in the Robert Wone Case. On Monday things got off to a big, fat…
Sever(al) Motions
Someone’s Clearly Not On The Same Page Whatever else can be said, this week’s motions have clarified one question…and raised multiple new ones. First, the question answered: how would the defense counter the prosecution’s filing of “Uncharged Conduct 1”? The…
Miranda Warning(s)
Were 4th, 5th & 6th Amendment Rights Violated? >Update @ end< In a busy week of motions and filings these two stand out. Ernesto Miranda If, as the defense contends, Ward and Zaborsky were not properly ‘Mirandized” on the night of Robert’s murder,…
Uncharged Conduct: Defense Response
Defense: Semen Is From Postmortem Process, Not Sexual Assault A flurry of motions in the Robert Wone case hit the DC Superior Court with a ferocity to match last month’s Snowmaggeddon, as the defense sought to fortify their position that Robert Wone…
Tool Time
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…