Category: MPD investigation

Standard Operating Procedure

Questions for Chief Lanier About The Investigation As weeks pass here at WMRW, we seem to amass more questions than answers.  About the circumstances of Robert’s murder, its prosecution, and the principle and secondary players involved.  Frustrating as it is, this…

Talking Points Memo

More Questions About The Investigation It’s hard to pinpoint exactly where the sloppy work began in this investigation. The smart money says it occurred when DC Police failed to hit the red record button on the VCR for the first…

Gates Of Hell

About That ‘Intruder Theory’ In the early hours of August 3, 2006, the defendants were subjected to hours of interrogation at the MPD Violent Crime Branch in Anacostia;  a long way from the million dollar plus townhouse on Swann Street. Price…

BlackBerry Black Hole

Here, There and Nowhere… Ace reporter Mike Scarcella with the Blog of Legal Times posts this item late Thursday: the missing BlackBerry – first mentioned in item #6, Tab A, of the prosecution’s response to the defendant’s joint motion to…

Where is the Evidence?

Could it be over here or over there? On Monday, The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times broke the news regarding the Government’s Response to Defendants’ Joint Motion to Compel Discovery. The article and the associated response from the USAO…

Objection Overruled

How the Coming Battle Over Evidence Will Shape The Trial’s Outcome No doubt many readers of this site – we’re looking your way, legal eagles – have far more experience and expertise in this subject than any of us.  Still,…

Cold Case

Absolute Zero The names and pictures of those on the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s unsolved homicide list stretch back as far as 1962.  There are nearly 100 poor souls on the 2006 list including two identified victims, listed alphabetically as ‘Unidentified Victim.’   The long hot…