Defense attorney Thomas Connolly bid Wednesday to submit an episode of the ABC news program Nightline into evidence in the sensational trial of three Dupont Circle men accused of covering up the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone.
"If there's another voice that sounds like Maureen Bunyan, that's relevant," argued Connolly. Weeks ago, a neighbor to the defendants, witness [...]
Speaking in soft voices Wednesday, Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward formally waived their right to testify. "The decision to testify is your decision and not your lawyers," Judge Lynn Leibovitz told the defendants, who stand accused of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in connection to the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone. [...]
Break out the bongos, hippies! Monday marks the summer solstice, when the sun hits its highest angle of the year. Expect highs in the 90s with a strong chance of drum circles. The annual astronomical event means summer has now officially arrived. And D.C. cops are, naturally, quite busy. Tis the season for peak crime, after all (curfew at 11 p.m., kids): WaPo [...]
A fierce Friday night in the District produced two shootings and six victims, two of which have died. The Washington Post reports:
"One victim was a 16-year-old District youth and the other was a 36-year-old Clinton man. The shootings occurred within an hour and 10 minutes, one in the 5900 block of Georgia Avenue in the [...]
Police say a man was fatally shot at about 1:00 p.m today inside a building in the 2100 block of 3rd Street NE. An MPD press release identifies the victim as Calvin Godsey, a 38 year-old male of the same block. Lt. Nicholas Breul tells City Desk via email that the shooter "may [...]
Defense attorneys for three men accused of conspiring to cover up the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone called their first witness Thursday after four weeks of witness testimony for the prosecution.
On the stand, forensics expert Nicholas Petraco disputed prior testimony from former O.J. Simpson-trial expert Douglas Deedrick, who had earlier suggested that blood patterns and [...]
Judge Lynn Leibovitz on Thursday tossed out charges of tampering with evidence against two of the three defendants on trial in connection to the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone. But the judge also ruled that "a reasonable juror" could find all three men guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
"I have considered all of the [...]
According to an arrest warrant, the triple shooting near Howard University on June 9 was over weed. The documents indicate that four men in a White Chevrolet Yukon near the corner of 8th and V streets NW were attempting to do a drug deal around 7:30 p.m. when things went sideways.
An argument ensued "over the quality [...]
Maryland chief medical examiner Dr. David Richard Fowler took the stand Wednesday in the sensational trial of three Dupont Circle men accused of conspiring to cover up the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone.
D.C. investigators had asked Fowler to review Wone's autopsy report, x-rays and crime scene photos. The forensic pathologist, with some 6,000 autopsies under [...]
Since its start, the trial surrounding the 2006 murder of attorney Robert Wone and its alleged cover-up has been able to draw a crowd. No surprise there, as the proceedings have all the intensity and drama of a Law & Order episode: Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward, three gay men involved in a polyamorous relationship, are accused of conspiring [...]
Louis Hinton tried to plead the Fifth, but Judge Lynn Leibovitz nonetheless compelled him to testify on Tuesday in the trial of three Dupont Circle housemates accused of conspiring to cover up the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone.
Of course, Hinton, looking bookish in squared glasses and tweed jacket, doesn't seem the criminal type. [...]
You Just Lost Your Tip, Buddy: A cab driver reportedly pulled a knife on a rider after refusing to give change for a $20. On June 12, at about 1:15 a.m, a man tried to pay for his cab ride to a spot on the 1900 block of 17th Street NW with a $20 bill. The cabbie refused to make change. [...]
The Montgomery County Police Department issued a press release Friday warning of a possible peeping tom peeking in on women in their homes in North Bethesda:
"Since April 26, 2010, there have been four reports of 'peeping tom' activity at residential apartments which all involve a similarly described black male suspect, in his 30’s or 40’s." [...]
Eric Forbes got a call one day from a lawyer asking whether a machine he sells "could force an ejaculation from someone," he says. Forbes founded a company that sells "e-stim" devices, contraptions that deliver a current of electricity to the genitals through various attachments and sex toys. Forbes likes to be electrically wowed himself. He pens his story on [...]
Two men dressed as construction workers, one reportedly wearing a hard hat and carrying a black and blue canvas bag, robbed an armored car in Columbia Heights this morning, making off in blue-green minivan with yet untold sums of cash. Reporting from the scene, WJLA-TV's Stephen Tschida notes, "this incident is very similar to one which [...]
