Twenty for Twenty-Ten We learned quite a bit over the course of 2009. Among the highlights: MPD Officer Diane Durham’s end-of-shift statement that contradicted the Trouple’s story on where they discovered Robert; the fact that all three of the housemates…
Month: December 2009
Poll Position
Most of us have had more than a year to kick the tires on every conceivable theory related to Robert’s murder. Some fit the circumstances and known evidence more than others. Each of the possible theories falls into one of six…
Peace On Earth
Goodwill Towards Men There may be no better time than the holiday season to once again ask readers to consider making a (hefty) contribution to the Robert Wone Memorial Trust. Robert’s family established the Trust, in which funds are distributed…
Peace On Earth
Goodwill Towards Men There may be no better time than the holiday season to once again ask readers to consider making a (hefty) contribution to the Robert Wone Memorial Trust. Robert’s family established the Trust, in which funds are distributed…
Watching The Detectives
Department of Corrections For the past couple of months we’ve occasionally made sport of DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s reticence to speak on the record about the Wone murder, repeating her mantra again and again, “It’s an active investigation.” It was easy to…
Dismissive
Government Beats Back Motion to Dismiss In the latest motion filed in the Wone case, the government responded in opposition to the defense’s joint motion to dismiss counts one (conspiracy to obstruct justice) and two (obstruction of justice) of the…
Motion: DENIED
A New Judge, and a New Playbook Despite the best efforts of Team Trouple – and a near love-letter to the bench – the defense request that Judge Frederick Weisberg continue overseeing the Wone trial has been denied. As expected, the…
Fighting For Justice
The Man with the Fu Manchu Beard While it has been rather easy to track information about the Swann Street Defendants’ counsel, after all criminal defense attorneys need the publicity, it has not been nearly as simple locating solid information…
Is Weisberg OUT?
Pretty Vacant So, we were pulling our January schedules together the other day, and we wanted to make sure the January 15th status hearing was still on. Guess what we noticed? According to the court calendar, the January 15th status hearing…
Doctors Watson and Crick on the Line
The Molecule of Life on Center Stage Much of the November 6th status hearing dealt with evidence issues, with the Defense requesting that the Government be required to turn over the lab notes of the technicians, in addition to DNA…