Posts Tagged ‘ Dylan Ward ’

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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Were 4th, 5th & 6th Amendment Rights Violated?  >Update @ end< In a busy week of motions and filings these two stand out. Ernesto Miranda If,  as the defense contends, Ward and Zaborsky were not properly ‘Mirandized” on the night of Robert’s murder, anything gleaned from their marathon interrogations must be ruled inadmissible.   In separate Motions to Suppress, Ward and Zaborsky claim they were...
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What’s Cooking with Chef Ward?   << Updated>> The first whiff we get that the Swann Street housemates were less than gracious hosts is in the affidavit.  According to their statements, they spent from 1030pm – 1100pm talking in the kitchen with Robert with only water on the menu.  Their bad manners have already been picked apart a...
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The Missing Knife – that says it all, or does it? The knife used to murder Robert Wone is one of the most perplexing pieces of physical evidence in a most bewildering case. The prosecution claims the knife found on the night stand next to Robert’s body was not the weapon used to commit the murder. That knife,...
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Joe and Victor Jumped to Dylan’s Defense; Why Didn’t Dylan Reciprocate? Throughout the investigation into the murder of Robert Wone, the Metropolitan Police Department maintained that the Swann Street defendants told a consistent story about what happened on the evening of August 2, 2006.  Diane Durham’s statement was the first to question the authenticity...
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Why Didn’t Anyone Check On The Third Housemate? And What Of That Bloodstain? It’s been said a crime succeeds or fails within the first 6 minutes.  It’s our collective hope to see this crime fail, which brings us once more to the first moments after Robert’s murder. As previously discussed, there are many things about the...
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