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Waid-ing for the End

Defense Requests Deposition from Lead Detective Bryan Waid Do you remember Bryan Waid? The Defense certainly hasn’t forgotten him. In the MPD interrogation videos, otherwise known as the  Anacostia Dialogues, MPD Detective Bryan Waid was the most sympathetic of the questioners on the morning…

Knowns and Unknowns

What Are We Not Asking That We Should? If there was a list of people you might not expect to turn up on this site, Donald Rumsfeld might be near the top. We expect he would be just as surprised…

The Decemberists

January Hymn:  The Status Hearing Transcript  The final exhibit attached to the Plaintiff Motion to Compel is the transcript from the December 8 status hearing, the last that Judge Brook Hedge was to preside over before she turned the reins and gavel…

5th Amendment: Round II

What We Have Here, is a Failure to Communicate Wasn’t it just the other day that we remarked how slow the paper chase in the Wone case was going?   There had been no new filings since early December, and little…

Tool Box

Judge Brook Hedge’s Lasting Legacy? Our jobs just got a little bit easier.  In fact, anyone in DC or beyond who wants to track the paper chase of either Superior Court criminal or civil cases, has a better tool to…

Where’s Ward-o?

Could A Black-Out Spell Out Dylan Ward’s Where Abouts? During the 2004 Presidential Campaign, CBS News ran a story critical of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard. Right-leaning political bloggers immediately raised questions about the authenticity…

HomicideWatch

Life and Death on the DC Streets  UPDATED:  Annys Shin’s WaPo piece on HomicideWatch can be found here. There’s a new murder site on the Interwebs:  A DC specific destination that goes on beyond the simple charge that wmrw has. Whereas…

La Davina

Was there a Cult of Callas on Swann Street? With the weather dipping into arctic freezing terrority this winter, it also seems that information about the Robert Wone case is moving at a glacial pace.  While we wait for movement, we thought…

Ranking Rankin

Reporting Last Week’s News Today  It’s official. Judge Michael Rankin is to inherit the caseload of retiring Judge Brook Hedge.  And along with that comes the Wone case and October 2011 trial.  As it appears on the DC Superior Court website:…

In The Beginning

First Night(s) Over the past three years we’ve heard from a number of people who lived on Swann Street at the time of Robert’s murder.  Many of them still do. Almost all vividly remember the night of August 2, 2006 and…