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…
Author: Craig
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…
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…
Delay of Game
Six Months and Half the Distance to the Goal At the May 22 status hearing, Judge Frederick Weisberg asked the defense if they were able to go to trial by the end of this year; Weisberg even grabbed his December calender…
A Dear Judge Letter
Government to Judge Weisberg: “Meh.” [Updated] It’ s still undecided whether the annual Superior Court felony calender swap will bring in a new judge – former prosecutor Lynn Leibowitz – to preside over the Wone case through the May 2010 trial. Judge…
Weekend At Bernie's
Leftover Turkey Amuse-bouche: Monday will bring the latest round of motions filed. The Government responded, with some very strong language, to the defense request to keep Judge Weisberg on the Wone case. That of course brought another response from the defense. …
State of Confusion
The Taxman Cometh On Monday, super sharpie contributor Meto walked us through some of the finer points of the Florida Homestead exemption – the law that may protect ownership of Joe and Victor’s Miami Shores home in the event they…
A Conspiracy of Dunces?
Maybe not the case… “Ann”, a reader of WMRW.com since its inception, offers her take on the case: I’ve been following this blog for almost one year. I have always been a “passive reader” because of the big effort I…
Sunshine State
Bienvenido a Miami In the years following Robert’s murder, Florida seemed to be calling out to the Swann Street defendants. Dylan Ward moved down to Wilton Manors, Ft. Lauderdale’s gay enclave in the fall of 2007 to work at a…