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Press Pass

Covering Today’s Status Hearing And The Trial Back to room 310 in the Moultrie Courthouse today for another status hearing.  Judge Lynn Leibovitz gavels this one in at 3:00pm.  The room usually fills up so getting there early is a…

"Our Theory is Evolving."

A Clearer Sense of What We’ll See at Trial Considering the reams of paper filed in advance of Friday’s status hearing, Judge Lynn Leibovitz again demonstrated firm command in managing her courtroom.   Amazing what can be accomplished in just one…

Separation Anxiety

The Trouple Now A Couple…And Maybe Not Even That Periodically we like to take the temperature of the defendants to learn how they’re holding up.  Sure, we see them at the Moultrie Courthouse, but they’re not exactly talkative.  So how…

Craig's List

Twenty for Twenty-Ten We learned quite a bit over the course of 2009.  Among the highlights: MPD Officer Diane Durham’s end-of-shift statement that contradicted the Trouple’s story on where they discovered Robert; the fact that all three of the housemates…

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…

Reap What You Sew

Which of the Defendants Will Be “Auffed”? In the knotted legal tangle that is the Robert Wone case, the following will go down as little more than a drop stitch.  We don’t presume it’s anything else.  But from these few…

Game Changer?

Underweird Last Friday’s hour-long status hearing focused on pieces of evidence that still need to be tested or retested. Twenty six of the original 270 items are all that remain in play; the government and defense appear close to settling…

Milk of Amnesia

More than Mother’s little helper… Tomorrow marks one month until the status hearing with Judge Weisberg to review the status of evidence testing of the 3-4 cc’s of Robert Wone’s blood specimen remaining from the autopsy. The status of other…

Suburbia

Running on empty… Times are tough. This recession has been compared frequently to the Great Depression. Law firms are laying attorneys off, GM and Chrysler finally collapsed, and the Washington Post is saving paper by doing online exclusives that disenfranchise…