Tag: legal teams

Monday @ Moultrie

Gearing Up for Today’s 3:00pm Status Hearing A lot is on Judge Lynn Leibovitz’ plate this afternoon.  Key defense motions awaiting rulings include those for severance  (separate trials) and those to suppress the defendants’ statements of their interrogations on the…

Joined At The Hip

Government Tries to Keep the Threesome Together Another piece of business before Judge Lynn Leibovitz at this Monday’s status hearing is on the Defendants’ Motions to Sever and hold separate trials for the three housemates.   A couple weeks ago we guessed…

Winners and Losers

Govt’s Streamlined Case Up Ends the C.W.  Who Wins and Loses? Friday’s status hearing revealed that the government was “winnowing” their case as the May 10 trial date draws near. By dropping  many of the uncharged conducted aspects and focusing only…

Defense + Judge Weisberg = BFFs

Swann Street Swoons  At Friday’s status hearing we learned that the defense team submitted a joint motion for special assignment, a request of Chief Judge Lee Satterfield that the man presiding over the Wone case, Judge Frederick Weisberg, stay on until…

"…Win, Lose, or Draw…"

The Defense Pushes Hard and the Court Pushes Back. The day’s legal action began long before Judge Frederick Weisberg gaveled in the status hearing at 2:01pm.   The defense this week has filed a range of motions – one to have…

Past Is Prologue

What Sept. 11th’s Transcript Foretells of Nov. 6th’s Hearing At 54 pages, the transcript of September 11th’s status hearing may seem a dry read.   “53 pages too much of legal jaw-boning…” perhaps.  But text is important.  Text is memory made…

Civil War

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…

Kicking The Can Down The Road

Another Status Hearing, And Very Little Resolved We will be posting an in-depth summation of today’s status hearing in front of Judge Weisberg shortly. The long and short of the hour-plus hearing is the number of contested items between the…

Motion Sickness

Getting Ready for Friday’s Status Hearing Nearly four months have passed since last we saw the Swann Street defendants in court.  The summer has fled, and this Friday’s forecast calls for gray skies, suits and expressions. The headline from the last…

Mouthpieces

A Friend is Slain in Your Home?  STFU One of the more unsettling aspects of the then-suspects’, now defendants’ puzzling behavior following Robert’s murder was their complete silence on both their friend’s death and their own innocence. None of the…