Team Members – Staff

By Vivien Williams [former] - August 9, 2024
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Team Members - Staff | Victims |

Details A defense attorney claimed police manipulated evidence in a homicide investigation during closing arguments before  DC Superior Court Judge Michael O’Keefe on Aug. 8. Bernard Matthews, 45, is charged with... Read More

By Vivien Williams [former] - August 5, 2024
Daily Stories | Homicides | Team Members - Staff |

Details Prosecutors alerted DC Superior Court Judge Robert Okun about a possible conflict of interest issue facing a homicide defendant’s attorney in an Aug. 2 hearing.  Tyree Irving, 27, is charged... Read More

By Vivien Williams [former] - August 5, 2024
Daily Stories | Homicides | Team Members - Staff |

Details A homicide case was delayed due to the defendant’s failure to appear in court before DC Superior Court Judge Robert Okun on Aug. 2. At issue was a death in... Read More

By Vivien Williams [former] - July 2, 2024
Daily Stories | stabbing | Team Members - Staff |

Details A stabbing defendant was reminded he must comply with all release conditions during a June 28 hearing before DC Superior Court Judge Jennifer Di Toro.  Billy Williams, 65, is charged... Read More

By Vivien Williams [former] - June 28, 2024
Daily Stories | Shooting | Team Members - Staff |

Details DC Superior Court Judge Erik Christian released a shooting defendant to home confinement and GPS tracking on June 27 after he pleaded not guilty. Deion Hinnant, 29, is charged with... Read More

By Vivien Williams [former] - June 28, 2024
Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Suspects | Team Members - Staff |

Details On June 27, DC Superior Court Judge Erik Christian sentenced a shooting defendant to six months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Anthony Calvin, 47, pleaded guilty... Read More

By Vivien Williams [former] , Mackenzie Konjoyan [former] - June 13, 2024
Daily Stories | stabbing | Team Members - Staff |

Details A carjacking defendant voluntarily waived his right to independently test DNA evidence recovered from a crime scene in front of a DC Superior Court Judge Erik Christian on June 13. ... Read More

By Russell Schwartz [former] - July 29, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Team Members - Staff | Victims |

Details DC Superior Court Judge Robert Okun set a trial date for a 2018 murder case. Mark Price, 28, and Antonio Murchison, 29, are charged with first-degree murder, seven counts of... Read More

By Russell Schwartz [former] - July 28, 2022
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Team Members - Staff | Victims |

Details DC Superior Court Judge Milton Lee continued a preliminary hearing for a murder defendant.  Jose Ramos, 35, is charged with second-degree murder while armed. Ramos was unable to attend the... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - June 9, 2021
Daily Stories | Domestic Violence | Featured | Sex Abuse | Suspects | Team Members - Staff |

Details During initial hearings on June 9, DC Superior Court Judge Shelly Mulkey held a sex abuse defendant and three out of the five domestic violence defendants presented before her. In... Read More

By Isabel “Izzy” Angeli [former] - June 14, 2021
Daily Stories | Domestic Violence | Featured | Presentments | Suspects | Team Members - Staff |

Details On June 12, 26 defendants were brought before DC Superior Court Judge Jose Lopez for initial hearings.  Five domestic violence defendants are charged with simple assault. Four of them were... Read More

By D.C. Witness Staff - June 11, 2021
Domestic Violence | Featured | Presentments | Sex Abuse | Sexual Assault | Suspects | Team Members - Staff |

Details DC Superior Court Judge Sean Staples held a sexual abuse defendant and three out of seven domestic violence defendants at presentments on June 10. Thirty-five defendants were presented in total.  ... Read More