Around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night, Craig Brownstein headed over to 1509 Swann Street NW, the house where lawyer Robert Wone was found stabbed to death exactly three years before. Wone had showed up there himself around that time on Aug. 2, 2006; six minutes before midnight, he was found lifeless by emergency medical technicians.

Sunday's event wasn't really a vigil. Brownstein and his co-editors at the blog whomurderedrobertwone.com - Michael Kremin, David Greer, and Doug Johnson - didn't make a big deal about getting together, or telling others that they were, though there was a live shot for Sunday's 11 o'clock news.

They just placed some Black-Eyed Susans, and other summer flowers picked from Brownstein's yard, by the front door, and then they stood around and talked about the case.

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The Post's Robert Wone controversy continues, at least in my mind.

Over the weekend, the paper's ombudsman, Andy Alexander, wrote in favor of the decision to go with a Web-only presentation of a two-part series by reporter Paul Duggan on the mysterious 2006 murder of Wone, a 32-year-old lawyer.

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Washington Post reporter Paul Duggan spent four months reporting and writing a two-part series on a juicy local murder case. The results were published on Monday and Tuesday, to great public acclaim. Yet faithful subscribers who scoop up their paper on the front steps each day found none of it in their pages---only a few teasers sending them to washingtonpost.com.

Is this a bold experiment by a savvy media institution to herd its readership across platforms? Depends on whom you ask.

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Last week, U.S. Attorney prosecutor Glenn Kirschner alleged in a D.C. Superior Court hearing on the Robert Wone case that one of three defendants has a criminal history. Kirschner claimed in court that Joseph Price, an attorney with Arent Fox, had either possessed or distributed E, Meth and/or coke. Up to this point, Price was just an intellectual property lawyer.

During the hearing, Price's attorney Bernard Grimm stated that the drug allegation was news to him.

The allegation struck us as odd. A check in D.C. Superior Court files shows that Joseph Price does not have a criminal record. He has never been charged or convicted of a drug offense. In response to an inquiry, Channing Phillips, the U.S. Attorney's Office spokesperson, stated in an e-mail that he could not comment.

"I'm not able to elaborate beyond what Kirschner said in court," Phillips stated.

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.

On November 25, attorney Benjamin J. Razi filed civil suit on behalf of Robert Wone's widow. The suit was filed against the three roommates---Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward---who have been charged with obstruction of justice. The civil complaint lays out a wrongful-death case; the family is seeking $20 million. But I wonder if there isn't a huge flaw in the case already. Did the family file its civil case too late?

Under "Count One: Wrongful Death," plantiff's attorney Razi cites the District of Columbia's Wrongful Death Statute, D.C. Code 16-2701.

That statute basically defines wrongful death and sets the definition and scope. But D.C. Code 2702 lays out who can bring a wrongful-death case and the statute of limitations for such cases:

"An action pursuant to this chapter shall be brought by and in the name of the personal representative of the deceased person, and within one year after the death of the person injured."

Robert Wone was murdered on August 3, 2006. His death is more than two years old. So, did Razi---a partner with big-time firm Covington & Burling---make such an error and file his wrongful-death case too late?

Razi isn't saying.

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The murder of Robert Wone is a tragic case. The circumstances of his murder are presented in the affidavit's now famous, grim narrative of drugging, stabbing, and sexual assault. Yesterday, a prominent lawyer called me to point out two holes in the law man's narrative involving the three---Victor Zaborsky, Dylan Ward, and Joe Price---now charged with obstruction of justice. The lawyer, who has zero involvement in this case, says these are holes any defense attorney would do well to exploit.

Defense attorneys have already started filing stuff in D.C. Superior Court. They may well turn their attention to these holes in the prosecutor's case if they haven't already.

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The Washington Blade does some work today to advance the legal wrangling angle on the Robert Wone murder case. Attorneys representing Dylan Ward, Joe Price, and Victor Zaborsky, all charged with obstruction of justice, filed paperwork blasting officials for holding Ward and requesting his release on his own recognizance.

Also in the motion, which was filed the same day Kathy Wone, Robert's widow, filed a civil suit against the three men:

Frustrated at its inability to determine how Wone died, the government’s logically-flawed affidavit argues that since the police were unable to identify a third-party ‘intruder’ responsible for Wone’s death, then all three defendants must know more than they are telling, must have tampered with the crime scene, and must have lied to the police....

Without distinguishing among the three defendants, and without specifically attributing any illegal action to any of the three men, the government tosses them all into the affidavit and grossly assumes that they must have done something to obstruct justice....Lacking evidence that any of the three men had anything to do with Wone’s death, the government relies on rank speculation in an attempt to make its case.

The motion marks the first substantial public statements from the three men since their indictments.

Full disclosure: I am acquainted with the accused in this case and met Kathy Wone at her husband's funeral.

The Robert Wone murder case heated up yesterday. One defendant was released. There was the news that all three roommates, who were charged with obstruction of justice, would be living together in a rented apartment. There was the news that a Grand Jury was looking into more charges. And finally, Wone's family filed a wrongful death civil suit in D.C. Superior Court against the three roommates.

One other aspect of the Wone case jumped out: There are some powerful attorneys on all sides of this case.

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Dylan Ward, who has been charged with obstruction of justice in the mysterious death of Robert Wone, was released this morning. A D.C. Superior Court granted his release. He is required to submit to curfew restrictions and wear a monitoring bracelet on his ankle.

Where's he going? Well, Ward will be living with the two other former roommates who were also recently charged with obstruction of justice.

The Post account of the mundane proceedings had one bit of news: "Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner said there were additional charges against Ward before a grand jury, but declined to identify what those charges were."

Update 3:15 p.m.: Robert Wone's family just filed a wrongful-death civil suit in D.C. Superior Court. The $20 million lawsuit was filed against the three defendants charged with obstruction of justice. The Post writes that the civil suit complaint alleged the defendants covered up the murder.

Three men were just indicted by a grand jury with obstruction of justice charges stemming from the investigation into the August 2006 homicide of attorney Robert Wone. All three were former roommates in a Dupont Circle house where Wone was found dead. Police say he had been drugged, sexually assaulted, and stabbed to death. As alleged details have leaked out about that night, Wone's death has become one of the most notorious in recent District history.

The U.S. Attorney's document on the case states: "From on or about August 2, 2006 through on or about August 3, 2006, within the District of Columbia, Joseph Price, Dylan Ward, and Victor Zaborsky, corruptly obstructed and impeded, and endeavored to obstruct and impede, the due administration of justice in an official proceeding, namely the criminal investigation into the murder of Robert Wone."

*photo courtesy of Model Minority.

Saturday's A1 story in the WaPo about the murder of lawyer Robert Wone on Swann Street filled in a few of the chilling details that have been hanging around in rumors for more than two years. But neither the article nor the affidavit do any more to answer why he was killed or who killed him.

I was at Robert's funeral. It was perhaps the saddest funeral I have ever attended and I never even met him. Both my husband and one of our dearest friends went to college with Robert and with Arent Fox attorney Joe Price, one of the three men who lived in the house where Robert was killed. I know Joe, his partner, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward, who was charged last week with obstruction of justice, tangentially and have been to the Swann house a couple of times for cocktails. All three of them are funny and sweet and I have seen true acts of kindness from them regarding our mutual friend.

I don't know what happened the night Robert was killed, but the affidavit describes a murder worse than I imagined, inferring that he was drugged, sexually assaulted, and was alive for some time after being stabbed repeatedly in the chest. It's a difficult read for anyone, but I especially worry about Robert's wife. Kathy Wone clearly lost the love of her life and, amazingly, was able to stand in front of a packed church in August 2006 and give a eulogy that was touching and funny and heart-breaking. I often wonder what I would do if faced with a situation like hers; in no way do I begrudge the way she's conducted herself in an effort to find out what happened to her husband. I truly hope some day she does find out. And I would caution that no one at this point has been found guilty of a crime. There seems to be only one certainty in this case so far: It's a tough, fraught situation for everyone involved.