Tag: motion of severance

Still At The Threshold

Fuzzy Legal Arguments, and Questions To Be Resolved The afternoon’s portion of the status hearing began at 2:15, in an ever-so-slightly cooler courtroom. Hopes ran to more accomplishments like what was seen in the morning.  Hopes largely dashed…or at least…

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…

Hocus Pocus

Kirschner Pulls A Couple Rabbits Out Of His Hat With the May trial looming just weeks away, we’re trying to stay current with the latest motions and filings.  Not always easy given the challenges posed by DC’s stone age system…

Clerks

How Kirschner Pushes Back the Miranda Charges In a week from now, we may know the outcome of two of the defendants’ key pleadings before Judge Lynn Leibovitz; namely their motions to sever and hold three seperate trials and their…

Rare Saturday Post

Government In Action We’re getting close to Go Time.  We have every reason to believe the trial will be gaveled in on time, just about five weeks from now on May 10.  Both sides have been following Judge Leibovitz’ scheduling…

Sever(al) Motions

Someone’s Clearly Not On The Same Page Whatever else can be said, this week’s motions have clarified one question…and raised multiple new ones. First, the question answered: how would the defense counter the prosecution’s filing of “Uncharged Conduct 1”? The…