Court to Nix Dix Pix ?
We may have a clearer picture of the skirmish over the plaintiff’s motion to pull the defendants’ phone and email records from Verizon.
The defense objected, citing privacy, and asked for all related documents to remain sealed. Yesterday, Judge Brook Hedge sided with the defense and ruled they will stay locked...
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The Taxman Cometh
On Monday, super sharpie contributor Meto walked us through some of the finer points of the Florida Homestead exemption - the law that may protect ownership of Joe and Victor’s Miami Shores home in the event they come out on the losing end of Kathy Wone’s $20 million wrongful death civil suit.
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Bienvenido a Miami
In the years following Robert’s murder, Florida seemed to be calling out to the Swann Street defendants. Dylan Ward moved down to Wilton Manors, Ft. Lauderdale’s gay enclave in the fall of 2007 to work at a massage parlour.
Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky purchased their $715, 000 Miami Shores home in June...
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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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Erik Prince Trumps Kathy Wone
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The good news: Judge Frederick Weisberg finally got around to setting a trial date in the matter of U.S. v. Price, Ward and Zaborsky. The not so good news: it’s a year away on May 10, 2010. Does anyone’s Outlook calender even go that far into the...
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As our night time copy editor alluded in last night’s post, yesterday, Judge Brook Hedge signed an order granting a stay in the civil proceeding against Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Katherine Wone on behalf of the Estate of Robert E. Wone (see the Defendants’...
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Currently, only one case seeks to answer the question of who murdered Robert Wone, and that is the wrongful death civil suit filed on behalf of Robert’s widow, Kathy Wone. For the plaintiffs, what’s at stake at Friday’s hearing is whether Kathy Wone’s plea about what happened on August 2, 2006 is answered sooner,...
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Some discussion has ensued amongst the commenters on the previous post regarding additional legal support being added for Kathy Wone’s civil suit. At issue is the statute of limitations in the District of Columbia for filing a wrongful death lawsuit. According to DC code:
§ 16-2702. Party plaintiff; statute of limitations.
An action pursuant to this...
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What Does Patrick Regan’s Add Mean for the Civil Case?
As reported late Wednesday by Mike Scarcella in the Blog of Legal Times, veteran plaintiffs attorney and wrongful deaths expert Patrick Regan has now signed on with the Wone team.
Regan’s involvement comes just in time for next week’s February 27 D.C. Superior Court status hearing...
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In the brief filed in DC Superior Court yesterday, lawyers on behalf of Kathy Wone announced that their third party discovery efforts in the civil suit against the defendants have resulted in “startling new information” that was obtained from the Defendants’ employers Arent Fox LLC (Joe Price’s employer) International Dairy Foods Association (Victor Zaborsky’s...
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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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