Homicide Trial Set to Begin in 2025

By Alayna Stein [former] - January 27, 2023
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

DC Superior Court Judge Maribeth Raffinan set a trial date in 2025 for a homicide case involving three co-defendants. 

The co-defendants, 23-year-old Mark Fletcher III, 22-year-old Malik Bynum, and 22-year-old Larry White, are charged with allegedly killing Rosendo Miller, 21. The incident occurred on the 1300 block of Brentwood Road, NE on July 2, 2021. All three co-defendants have been indicted on charges of conspiracy, robbery while armed, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, unlawful possession of a firearm, and first-degree murder while armed. 

According to court documents, the crime was captured on surveillance footage which showed the three defendants attempting to steal items from the victim including his Gucci satchel, Rolex watch, and Dior shoes. Shell casings were also recovered from the scene of the crime. 

The prosecution asked to set a trial date, but Bynum’s defense attorney Pierce Suen argued that a trial date shouldn’t be set before the results of ballistics testing are returned.

However, White’s defense attorney Lisbeth Siperstein, who appeared online for the hearing, said that she was open to setting a trial date. Fletcher’s defense attorneys Gretchen Franklin and Thomas Healy agreed. 

The prosecutor said she also expects DNA testing results to be returned “sometime around April.”

Judge Raffinan instructed the parties to return in May to discuss the DNA results.

A status hearing was scheduled for May 19.