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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Latest Defense Discovery Request Hints At Defense Strategy
At the last status hearing on September 11, much of the first half focused on whether radio communications between emergency personnel and MPD was evidence that was covered under the Jencks Act.
For the non-lawyers among us, which includes the four editors here at WMRW.com,we needed to...
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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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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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Criminal Defense by the Hour Pound
Today’s 2:00 status hearing could be a deep dive into minutia. Thought the discovery issues were settled at the May 22 hearing? Hardly. Motion commotion all summer long. The meters keep running.
For months the defense has badgered Kirschner’s office for the goods: images of Robert’s RFA hard drive, his...
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Did Joe Price Change His Story Within Minutes?
With all eyes focused on this Friday’s status hearing, it seems something else buried in this summer’s motions has gone overlooked.
As the AUSA, FBI and defense teams wrestle it out over potential biologic evidence and high-tech testing, an old-school statement by the first responding MPD officer on...
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Getting Ready for Friday’s Status Hearing
Nearly four months have passed since last we saw the Swann Street defendants in court. The summer has fled, and this Friday’s forecast calls for gray skies, suits and expressions.
The headline from the last hearing (May 22) was of course the trial date being set. The other big news was...
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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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