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By
Laura Berol
- March 4, 2025
Carjacking
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Court
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Daily Stories
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Robbery
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Suspects
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Attorney Daniel Dorsey asked DC Superior Court Judge Robert Hildum to release his client Cornell Jamison from DC jail to 24-hour home confinement with GPS monitoring but was refused on March 3, after Jamison waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
Jamison, 20, is charged with armed carjacking and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence for his alleged involvement in an incident on Jan. 22 on the 4300 block of 3rd Street, SE.
According to court documents, the victim told police four men in a van followed her on her way from her car to her apartment late at night. She said three of them got out of the van with a gun and repeatedly punched and kicked her, then stole her clothing and keys, which they used to take her car.
“They assaulted her with a firearm by pointing it at her head and pistol-whipping her head. They stripped her of her clothes,” the prosecutor told the court.
According to the prosecutor, videos of the incident appeared on an Instagram account associated with Jamison. The prosecutor played one of the videos for Judge Hildum, saying he wasn’t displaying it in open court out of concern for the victim’s privacy.
Dorsey asked Judge Hildum to release Jamison because he has no prior criminal history and he has support from his mother and several other family members, who attended the hearing. Dorsey shared additional information with Judge Hildum privately to bolster his argument for release.
“I was shown a video at the bench, and I have to say it’s quite disturbing,” Judge Hildum said, explaining his decision to deny Jamison’s request for release. “Beyond that, it’s the particularly vicious way in which they went about robbing and terrorizing–I would say terrorizing–the victim in this case.”
The next hearing in this case is scheduled for March 24.