Going Viral Tribal UPDATED In more ways than one, quite a few lurkers have surfaced this week. We’ve seen a number of them in the comments section and a few days ago this came into the wmrw.com mailbox: a rather clever…
Month: October 2009
Our Worst Fears
I Read The News Today, Oh God… It’s accepted practice in Washington to release bad news late on a Friday afternoon. But it wasn’t mere bad news that was going to hit on Halloween weekend 2008; this was a real-life horror story.…
The Day Swann Street Stood Still
One Year Ago Everything Changed In mid-September, when Diane Durham’s statement came to light about conflicting stories of the evening’s events, the ground seemed to shift. However, the original ground shaking event in the investigation occurred one year ago when Dylan…
Countdown
Lurkers are People Too We received an interesting email last week from a longtime reader who works in the legal profession. How’s that for vague? Best described as a lurker, Hoya Loya found us by way of Above the Law…
We Will Get Things Done
Congratulations are in Order As mentioned in the comments section earlier this week, the Annual Robert E. Wone Award for Exemplary Service was presented at the Virginia Commonwealth University on October 19. Candice Nunnally was given the 2009 award at an event attended by…
Powerful Slave, Master Criminal
New Book Offers Fresh Insights into Storied Case Here’s what we know: a young male was (inconclusively) sexually assaulted and murdered. Two of the men suspected were involved in a gay relationship with a master and slave subtext. The slave…
Come Out, Come Out…
…Whoever You Are. October 10, 2006 saw the first national story about Robert’s murder in the gay media. Gretchen Cook of the Advocate was playing catch up. Monthly magazine long lead times don’t lend themselves well to late developments. Much…
Waving the Bloody Shirt
What did Joe Price see that no one else did? Both the Government and defense have retained expert witnesses. At the September 11 status hearing, the defense talked about the difficulties of coordinating tests with one of theirs in California. …
NextGen
Big Shoes to Fill This Saturday, the American University’s Washington College Of Law will host the Robert E. Wone Judicial Clerkship & Internship Conference. This annual affair offers minority law students insight and information about judicial clerkships and internships from judges…
The Kitchen Debate
The Smallest Part of the Defendant’s Story May Have Big Problems. Gazing into the confined black box that is 1509 Swann on August 2nd, 2006, there’s no detail too mundane that doesn’t deserve a second look. We don’t presume guilt…