Category: Trial Coverage

Day 17: Updates

4pm Update: An Early Day The day’s wrap is coming soon.  Until then: Nicholas Petraco finished cross and re-direct, and the court rose.  Tomorrow, one witness for the defense; court reconvenes at 2:15 pm.  1:30 Update: In-and-Out Burger Surprise!  Defense…

Day 16: Wrap

Impermissible Speculation, or Reasonable Inference? First, the end of the day’s events.  At 4pm Judge Leibovitz – to the apparent irritation of some legal counsel – reconvened to begin hearing argument in the motion to acquit, brought under Rule 29…

Day 16: Updates

5:00pm Update: Adjournment A full recap of the day’s activity hits around 7:00pmET…  The prosecution finds its feet and the defense tries to trip them up. 3:00pm Update – If the Knife Doesn’t Fit… Detective Bryan Waid was called back to…

Day 15: Wrap

An End In Sight – With Stipulations Judge Leibovitz returned to the bench this afternoon at 2:30…and promptly left for a walk.  The reason: defense and prosecution negotiations were close – very close – to a comprehensive set of deals that…

Day 15: Updates

2pm Update:  What were we saying about stepping on the gas earlier? 11:30, Det. Daniel Whalen was called.  A 27+ year veteran of the MPD, and homicide detective for over 20. Whalen was investigating the August 2nd murder, but it…

Day 14: Updates

3:30 Update As expected, the first witness called after the lunch break was Jason Torchinsky.  Close friends by all measures, attorney Torchinsky was also close to Kathy Wone at the time of the murder, and served unofficially for a brief…

Day 12: Wrap

The Bicycle Thief  – Updated with crappy video Today’s afternoon session was dedicated mostly to the cross examination of Bryan Waid, the MPD lead detective on the case.  Some of this was covered in a 3:40pm update, but we’ll expand upon…

Day 11: Wrap

Friends and Family     UPDATED 9:30 Tara Ragone, longtime William and Mary friend of both Robert and Joe Price, wrapped up her testimony and cross this afternoon. She recalled a fond friendship between the three and that she was…

Day 11: Updates

4:45pm: Adjournment Tara Ragone completed testimony and cross.  She yielded another headline regarding what Joe Price may have done with the knife.   The day ended with AUSA T. Patrick Martin starting his direct of MPD Homicide Detective Bryan Waid.  In…

Day 10: Wrap

Upstairs, Downstairs and on the Stand After the lunch break today, the fireworks erupted over statements. Again. As mentioned in the updates post today, the government has decided to admit all defendants’ statements for the truth of the matter.  Ward…