Someone’s Clearly Not On The Same Page Whatever else can be said, this week’s motions have clarified one question…and raised multiple new ones. First, the question answered: how would the defense counter the prosecution’s filing of “Uncharged Conduct 1”? The…
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NSFW
Not Safe For Wone Last week’s filing of the Government’s Notice of Uncharged Conduct I generated a fair amount of light and heat in the Robert Wone case. The ‘light’ column features highlights of the government’s position – that the…
Black And Blueprint
Uncharged Conduct, and Michael Price Uncharged…Yet Hewing to Judge Lynn Leibovitz’ scheduling order, the prosecution has met their first deadline. The government’s filing of “Uncharged Conduct I” was due on February 5th and was made public Tuesday, Feb. 16th… just…
Motiveless
In Senseless Crimes, Sex Is Often The Motive At trial, the of question ‘who did it?’ is bound intimately to its partner. ‘Why did they do it?’ “This is a head scratcher,” says noted homicide investigator Dallas Drake. No small…
The Brothers Price
Friday’s Hearing – And Behavior – Raises A New Theory The more time passes from Friday’s status hearing, the more serious questions arise. We love hearings like that, and will have much to say over the next few weeks. As…
"This Was Not A Good Day."
A New Judge, And A New Attitude, In Moultrie >> New pic added Long time Wone observers had become accustomed to the somewhat folksy ways and relaxed pace of Judge Fredrick Weisberg. Whatever else learned from today’s status hearing, it…
Friday's (Com)motions
Hard Copies As promised, the three motions filed ahead of Friday’s 2:05pm status hearing. Two seem rather routine. The third, not so. The Government’s Response to Defendants’ Joint Motion to Exclude Uncharged Criminal Misconduct at page one argues that since…
Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
Why Didn’t Anyone Check On The Third Housemate? And What Of That Bloodstain? It’s been said a crime succeeds or fails within the first 6 minutes. It’s our collective hope to see this crime fail, which brings us once more…
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…
There Will Be Blood
…Except At Swann Street. Evidence is everything at trial. Cases rise and fall on available evidence, regardless of true justice. Most often, it’s the presence of evidence (DNA, ballistics, a bloody glove, etc.) that determines the prosecution’s path and the…