Robert Wone

Beyond The Forest of Legal Documents We’re fighting clutter here; no easy feat. A week out from opening statements is as good a time as any for another document dump.   These have been laying around a while and we’ve done our level best to mine them for nuggets, never quite knowing for certain where a headline may...
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The Revolving Door Monday will find us one week out from the start of the trial.  As we gear up and adjust our schedules to staff the expected month plus long proceedings, we’ve had to make some changes in the line up.  The planned gavel-to-gavel coverage dictates this. At this Wednesday’s, May 5 evidentiary hearing, we’ll know...
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Funeral For A Friend We’ve come to learn from the Harry Jaffe’s Washingtonian piece that in addition to the hundred and hundreds of mourners at Robert’s funeral service was at least one member of the DC MPD.  The turnout and outpouring that day should have been evidence enough for the detective to fully understand the magnitude...
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Now That The Embargo Has Been Lifted… If you needed any more reason to go out and purchase the May edition of Washingtonian Magazine, this nugget that Harry Jaffe uncovered, is alone worth the cover price of $3.95. In painstaking (and at times heartbreaking) detail, Harry traces the events of the days immediately following Robert’s murder, as...
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Muzzling the Cadaver Dogs Although the odds of getting evidence and ‘testimony’ from the cadaver dogs who searched the murder scene were slim, it’s now official that none of their findings will make it into the trial. The original affidavit said the dogs altered (to human blood or remains) at two spots at 1509; the patio drain and...
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Inquire Within We’re still trying to determine how long the trial is supposed to last.  It’s hard to be exact when predicting the length of a complex trial but in the coming days we’ll reach out to some principals to see what they are budgeting and expecting.  The best guess now is four to six...
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Status Hearing Updates 3:45pm:  Adjournment.  Full house today.  NO continuance as of now.  Xylene is OUT.  May 5 evidentiary hearing is next order of business.  Full recap coming. 2:50pm: Price, Ward, Zaborsky here.  Defense team associates arrive. Schertler, Connolly too. Legal Times Mike Scarcella on site to cover. 2:45pm: Waiting outside the hearing room now.  Members of...
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Does Price’s Fair-Weather Activism Demonstrate Hypocrisy, More? In 2004, USA Today showered Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky and the lesbian couple to whom each of them donated sperm to conceive children with a splashy write-up about gay families during the run- up to the Bush Adminstration’s use of the gay marriage as a wedge issue during the Presidential election Joe Price’s...
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Start The Presses As a rule, we purposely don’t reveal much information regarding readership or statistics.  Honoring the anonymity and confidentiality of users has always been a chief concern, and that’s worked pretty well.  For the more outgoing readers, we owe a serious debt to those who’ve reached out to us and maintain ongoing channels and relationships.  Pen...
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Zaborsky Withdraws Motion to Suppress An interesting consent motion ran across the clerk’s desk late Friday afternoon, but because the District of Columbia was celebrating Emancipation Day the Courthouse was closed.  And perhaps ironically, this filing may be evidence of Victor Zaborsky trying to free himself. It appears that Zaborsky’s counsel Thomas Connolly, or a lower...
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