The jury returned its verdict today in the trial of Vasile Graure, the truck driver accused of setting fire to Glover Park strip club Good Guys last year. Graure was convicted of the following charges:
- Three counts of assault with intent to kill while armed
- Four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon
- One count [...]
The jury in the trial of Vasile Graure began its deliberations today at 3 p.m. Fifteen jurors, four women and 11 men, sat through the trial. Today, three were dismissed, but held on call in case another juror is forced to drop out in the middle of deliberation. The now-12 member jury—ten male, two female—must [...]
Defense attorney Premal Dharia made a closing argument this morning in the case against her client, Vasile Graure. Dharia characterized the prosecution's case a "story."
"That's all it is, ladies and gentleman," she said. "A story. . . . bits and pieces of information cobbled together with a lot of assumptions." Dharia referred to Graure as [...]
Prosecutors delivered their closing arguments this morning in the case against Vasile Graure, a truck driver accused of setting fire to Glover Park strip club Good Guys last year. Graure is charged with seven counts of assault with intent to kill, one count of arson, two of burglary, and one of mayhem.
"Don't play with fire," [...]
The Good Guys arson trial is coming to the end. The jury is hearing closing statements now in the trial of Vasile Graure. I'll have updates on the arguments later in the day.
Attorneys for Vasile Graure opened and rested their case this afternoon in the case of last year's fire at Glover Park strip club Good Guys. After calling five witnesses to the stand—including two employees of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia and three MPD officers—Judge Robert Richter asked Graure if he'd like [...]
The government called its last witness this morning in its case against Vasile Graure, the man accused of setting fire to Glover Park strip club Good Guys last year. After listening to the testimony of MPD detective Frank Molina, who detailed the police's procedures used to identify the suspect, the jury filed out. Then, the [...]
Detective Todd Gray, a 19-year veteran of the D.C. police department, is assigned to the arson task force. He was involved in securing the search warrant for Vasile Graure's arrest following the Nov. 3, 2007 fire. He entered Graure's hotel room at the Alexandria Days Inn on the night of his arrest.
Inside, first aid gauze [...]
Frank Raucci, a 59-year-old Takoma Park electronics technician, has been frequenting Good Guys for six to seven years. He knows the waitresses, and is a friend of manager Kathleen Lazorchack. He's a regular. When he stopped into the club on the evening of Nov. 3, 2007, he sat down in front of stripper Gabriella's stage [...]
Dr. James C. Jeng of the Washington Hospital Center's burn surgery unit began treating Vladimir Djordjevic shortly after he was burned at Good Guys strip club on the evening of Nov. 3, 2007. Jeng says that when Djordjevic arrived, he had suffered burns on 95 percent of his body. Nearly all were third degree—the type [...]
