Jeff Levine - November 19, 2024
Details Armed carjacking co-defendants failed to appear in court before DC Superior Court Judge Erik Christian–one had his appearance waived for medical reasons, but the other, released recently from jail in... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 18, 2024
Details In a Nov. 18 hearing, DC Superior Court Judge Jennifer Di Toro accepted a guilty plea from a defendant for charges stemming from an armed carjacking of an off-duty FBI... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 18, 2024
Details New data from D.C. Witness validates the common public perception that violent crime among youth in the District is increasing. The percentage of homicides and non-fatal shootings perpetrated by youth... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 15, 2024
Details DC Superior Court Judge Michael O’Keefe sentenced a defendant to 80 years incarceration on Nov. 15. Beysean Jones, 29, is charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder while armed,... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 15, 2024
Details A plea offer in a homicide case was presented by the prosecution in a Nov. 15 hearing before DC Superior Court Judge Michael O’Keefe. Joshua Allen, 33, is charged with... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 14, 2024
Details During the first day of trial, the prosecution called multiple witnesses to present evidence they say links the defendant to a gang-related homicide before DC Superior Court Judge Maribeth Raffinan,... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 6, 2024
Details Louis Wesson, 28, has found himself in the DC Superior Court’s presentment hearings before and it has not been a happy experience. His latest encounter with the criminal justice system... Read More
Jeff Levine - November 4, 2024
Details Room “C 10” in the DC Superior Court building is often at its busiest on Monday afternoons as defendants come out of the weekend “lock up” for their initial “presentment”... Read More
Jeff Levine - October 30, 2024
Details During closing arguments in a trial of two-of-five juveniles accused of stomping an elderly, disabled man to death, the prosecutor said the crime was “a premeditated, deliberate attempt to end... Read More
Jeff Levine - October 24, 2024
Details In a withering cross-examination defense attorney Charlotte Gilliland got a 15-year-old witness, who is also a murder defendant, to admit that her version of the crime was motivated by a... Read More
Jeff Levine - October 18, 2024
Details In a trial’s third month, prosecutors meticulously built their case against two of the five juveniles accused in a beating homicide by attempting to turn their own words against them.... Read More
Jeff Levine - October 16, 2024
Details A 15-year-old girl described her part in kicking and beating an elderly man to death in testimony before DC Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs on Oct. 15. And she identified... Read More