Author: Craig

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…

Advancing The Story

The Post Delivers Two months after Robert’s murder, key pieces of the story were emerging. Three years ago last Friday, in an October 9, 2006 Washington Post article , we see a rudimentary version of the August 2nd timeline, many familiar…

The Pelecanos Brief

Truth is Stranger than Fiction On Monday we looked at what effect a newsroom retirement could have on the media coverage of the Wone case.  WUSA-TV’s Gary Reals was certainly working his sources hard early in the investigation. What other…

Judgment at Nurenberg

Nine News Now, Nine News Then… Last Thursday afternoon we got a call from Gary Nurenberg, ace reporter from DC’s CBS affiliate, WUSA-TV, channel 9.  Gary was working on a piece about the Wone case and wanted to update his audience…

Skimpy Briefs

Pink Paper Ponders Paralytics Two weeks after the September 11 status hearing in the Robert Wone case, DC’s flagship gay paper, The Washington Blade offers a summary on the day. The piece by longtime Blade scribe Lou Chibbaro was filed on…

The Paper Chase

Document Dump Now as promised, the rest of the motions filed over the past couple months.   So far these have yielded MPD Officer Diane Durham’s statement that refutes Joe Price’s known explanation of where he found Robert’s body; Detective Brian…

The Story of "O"

Where is Square One? You’ve likely been there before.  Trying to explain this case to a friend, you rattle off its evidentiary twists and legal turns.  Their reaction: bewilderment. You can hardly blame them.  The Robert Wone case is head-spinning…

The Story of "O"

Where is Square One? You’ve likely been there before.  Trying to explain this case to a friend, you rattle off its evidentiary twists and legal turns.  Their reaction: bewilderment. You can hardly blame them.  The Robert Wone case is head-spinning…