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. …
Category: BDSM
To Compel or Not to Compel
Defendants Motion to Compel Discovery; Gov’t Replies: “Talk to the Hand” It must be getting closer to May. Hardly a day passes without another shower of paper in the Robert Wone Case. On Monday things got off to a big, fat…
Sever(al) Motions
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…
Uncharged Conduct: Defense Response
Defense: Semen Is From Postmortem Process, Not Sexual Assault A flurry of motions in the Robert Wone case hit the DC Superior Court with a ferocity to match last month’s Snowmaggeddon, as the defense sought to fortify their position that Robert Wone…
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…
Power Outage
Government Cedes Crucial Element; Opens New Avenues With a new judge setting an expedited schedule, and a trial date drawing nearer, filings between all sides – the government, the defense and the court – are moving post-haste. And that’s only…
Leatherheads
Why introducing the BDSM aspect is probative One of the thresholds the judge must determine is whether the value of evidence is more probative than prejudicial when deciding what evidence makes it to trial. If it is deemed probative, then it…