What’s In, What’s Out is On Court’s Docket Today At 9:30 am, Judge Lynn Liebowitz gavels in what looks to be the final motions hearing before the start of the May 10 trial. The court has a full plate with…
Author: David
Do Dead Men Groan?
Does Defense’s Own Expert Contradict Defendants’ Statements? In the government’s Omnibus Motion In Limine regarding Certain Designated Defense Experts, they focus on the testimony of Dr. Farzad Najam, a cardiac surgeon at George Washington University. Dr. Najam will testify that the…
Fiber Optics
Government Conducting Additional Tests; Defense Seeks to Limit Results In the most recent filing in the Robert Wone case, we learn that, as recently as March 24, 2010, the government has been conducting experiments to bolster their evidence of tampering and…
Beyond Marriage
Does Price’s Fair-Weather Activism Demonstrate Hypocrisy, More? In 2004, USA Today showered Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky and the lesbian couple to whom each of them donated sperm to conceive children with a splashy write-up about gay families during the run- up to the Bush Adminstration’s…
Advice and Consent
Zaborsky Withdraws Motion to Suppress An interesting consent motion ran across the clerk’s desk late Friday afternoon, but because the District of Columbia was celebrating Emancipation Day the Courthouse was closed. And perhaps ironically, this filing may be evidence of…
Big Love
Did the Third Degree Miss the Cracks on Swann Lake? Cue the Big Band music from HBO’s Big Love, but instead of Bill Paxton, out skates Arent Fox partner Joe Price onto Swann Lake. Price offers his left hand and Victor Zaborsky joins…
Opposition Friday
Government Quotes the Defendants’ Words Back At Them The Government responded earlier this week, not surprisingly, in opposition to the separate defense filings to suppress the defendants’ statements they gave the night of the murder from being entered at trial. In…
Chinese Handcuffs
New Evidence of an Interest in Asian Men? Disclaimer: This post is MSFW – Mostly Safe For Work. When the prosecution admitted they were dropping much of the sexual assault evidence at trial their stated reason was an “evolving” opinion. …
It Just So Happened…
Coincidences Or Puzzle Pieces? Among the many puzzling aspects about the murder of Robert Wone is the surprisingly high number of coincidences that all managed to converge on the night of August 2, 2006. Even with the government dropping much of their…
Winners and Losers
Govt’s Streamlined Case Up Ends the C.W. Who Wins and Loses? Friday’s status hearing revealed that the government was “winnowing” their case as the May 10 trial date draws near. By dropping many of the uncharged conducted aspects and focusing only…