Is long term memory really just a figment of the imagination?
Diane Ward was the only family member of the defendants to take the stand during the criminal trial last summer.
Dylan’s mother testified on the provenance of the “missing knife”, i.e., the knife that would have occupied the empty slot in the cutlery set box...
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Could A Black-Out Spell Out Dylan Ward’s Where Abouts?
During the 2004 Presidential Campaign, CBS News ran a story critical of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard. Right-leaning political bloggers immediately raised questions about the authenticity of the documents.
They argued that the documents were more than likely forgeries because the typography...
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Dylan Ward’s Eerily Quiet Deposition
On November 10, a meeting room at the Pennsylvania Avenue law offices of Covington and Burling quickly filled up with people for a deposition in an impending civil suit. If a meeting like this had happened five years ago, one of those people in the room could very well have been...
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“Dylan Ward” Re-emerges in Florida…and In Fiction
We’ve long suspected the Swann Street threesome ceased living together in part or toto even before this Spring’s trial began. There’s been hard evidence and strong suggestions that each of the three may have gone their separate ways. If that’s truly the case, we shall say only mazel...
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Address Unknown. Or is it?
In the Wone case and upcoming trial, relationships matter and in turn, so do living arrangements. In their interrogatory responses filed earlier, none of the three gave their current addresses.
They claimed they may do so when a protective order is entered or confidentiality agreement struck that will keep the “information...
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All about Miranda
UPDATE 3:45pm Tuesday: Judge Leibovitz denies motions to sever; allows introduction of videotapes and statements as not-as-fact except for very brief excerpts for fact. More coming.
Statements continued as the issue of the day, and as expected Dylan Ward took the stand this morning, first questioned by Robert Spagnoletti. The thrust of...
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Social Media & Privacy
Last week, a Facebook employee revealed – in an “off record chat” with New York Times reporter Nick Bilton, that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t believe in privacy.
Congressmen, social media experts and news analysts all pounced. After all, Zuckerberg heads up the largest social media network, and this should scare anyone...
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Ward’s Transcript: Good Cop, Bad Cop…and Homophobe Cop
Q: I don’t believe we’re getting the truth here.
A: Everyone keeps telling me that.
We’ve read transcripts of Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky’s ‘voluntary’ statements to the MPD the night of Robert Wone’s murder. Now we add 69 more pages to the record with Dylan Ward’s interview with, variously, Sgt....
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Government Quotes the Defendants’ Words Back At Them
The Government responded earlier this week, not surprisingly, in opposition to the separate defense filings to suppress the defendants’ statements they gave the night of the murder from being entered at trial.
In doing so, AUSA Glenn Kirschner revealed new details about what Joe did immediately after finding Robert’s...
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There are no secrets on the Internet
In documents filed recently and in Friday’s status hearing, Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner once again brought up Michael Price, Joe’s brother, as a person close to the defendants. Kirschner confirmed that evidence associated with Michael would be presented during the trial in the Government’s Notice of Uncharged Conduct I.
But...
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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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