Robert Wone Case: Defendants Lose Monitoring Bracelets
Lots of good legal wrangling today in the Robert Wone case. A District Court D.C. Superior Court judge agreed that the three roommates charged with obstruction of justice could lose their monitoring bracelets. The Post reports that the curfews for the three---Joseph Price, 37; Victor J. Zaborsky, 42; and Dylan M. Ward, 38---have been lifted as well.
But U.S. Attorney's Office prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, chief of the homicide division, said that his office is seeking additional charges for all three---namely, a tampering with evidence charge.
Also in the Post story was the allegation that Price had possessed or distributed meth, coke and E. Price's attorney argued that he was unaware of the alleged drug use. [We're checking with the courts and Kirschner's office on this one]. If Price had a criminal record, you'd think that would have come out in the already extensive court documents.
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5:45 pm
"E.Price"? This news bit was obviously written in a rush. The prosecution stating they had evidence of Price using/distributing illegal drugs doesn't necessarily mean that Price has a criminal record. If those three defendants were poor and black, you'd bet they'd be spending the holidays in jail.
10:29 pm
Thanks goodness these three upstanding citizens will be able to get to Provincetown for the holidays! This case stinks to high heaven and here's hoping that the privileged trio at least do some hard time.
8:25 am
yes, the "case" stinks to high heaven, and yes, the defts would be in jail if they were young and black. Understandably, everyone's visceral impulse is to hang all three because someone must know about, or have done, something very evil. Certainly, they'll seek (perhaps unsuccessfully) separate trials since it would otherwise be impossible for a jury to assess the evidence fairly against each individual defendant. What's likely is that one will soon flip on the others and help make the govt's case.