Month: January 2022

By Mark Lu [former] - January 11, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Domestic Violence | Sex Abuse | Suspects | Victims |

Details A defendant accepted a plea agreement in a felony domestic violence case he picked up after publishing explicit material of a victim without her consent. Carlton Robertson pleaded guilty to... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - January 10, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | stabbing | Suspects | Victims |

Details A prosecutor informed a DC Superior Court judge that they are seeking a manual reinterpretation of DNA evidence in a murder case.  Larry Brown is charged with second-degree murder, possessing... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - January 10, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Probation | Sex Abuse | Sexual Assault | Suspects | Victims |

Details A defendant pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor sexual abuse. On Sept. 14, 2021, a woman was walking her dog in Southeast, DC when Darnell Peoples started following... Read More

By Tory Lysik [former] - January 10, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Domestic Violence | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details A defense attorney advocated for her client during his sentencing hearing, speaking to the mental health issues he faced for years leading up to the offense. Peter Banfield was originally... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - January 10, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Sex Abuse | Sexual Assault | Suspects | Victims |

Details A DC Superior Court judge denied a prosecutor’s emergency motion to change the bond conditions of a sex abuse and kidnapping defendant currently on pretrial release. The 60-year-old defendant is... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - January 10, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Domestic Violence | Suspects | Victims |

Details A domestic violence defendant filed a pro se motion to represent himself in court. The defendant is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm during a... Read More

By Andrea Keckley [former] - January 7, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for a shooting that killed an innocent bystander. Lagioria Brinkley was 36-years-old when she was struck in... Read More

By Mark Lu [former] , Tory Lysik [former] - January 7, 2022
Daily Stories | Featured | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details A grocery store. A gas station. A barbershop. A non-denominational church. Homicides are on the rise in Washington, DC and mass shootings are one of the causes. Neighborhoods spanning across... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - January 7, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details Parties in a sex abuse case are close to reaching a plea agreement. The 19-year-old defendant is charged with first-degree child sex abuse for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl multiple... Read More

By Tory Lysik [former] - January 6, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details After a two-week delay and multiple other complications along the way, a trial centered on an 11-year-old’s fatal shooting wrapped up with parties delivering their closing arguments before the case... Read More

By Andrea Keckley [former] - January 6, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details This case has been acquitted. A recent rise in coronavirus cases prompted DC Superior Court Chief Judge Anita-Josey Herring to order that new jury trials scheduled through Feb. 11 be... Read More

By Tory Lysik [former] - January 6, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | stabbing | Suspects | Victims |

Details A DC Superior Court judge handed down an eight-year prison sentence for a 44-year-old man convicted of stabbing his cousin to death in an apartment complex near Rock Creek Park.... Read More