“You had to stab her to defend yourself … including those seven stab wounds on her back?” the prosecution asked during cross-examination of a stabbing defendant in a Nov. 7…
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A stabbing defendant claimed self-defense in a dispute with the victim, who suffered 21 stab wounds, in trial arguments before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt on Nov. 6. Devan…
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The victim in a violent stabbing case testified that the defendant “tried to make me stab myself” in a Nov. 5 trial before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt. Devan…
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A witness in a stabbing case testified the victim was “being held captive” by her boyfriend in a jury trial before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt on Nov. 4. …
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A police officer who responded to the scene testified in a stabbing case that the victim was “barely alive” in DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt’s courtroom on Oct. 31. …
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On Oct. 10, DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt ruled a witness’s statements, who was five-years-old at the time of the incident, are admissible to the jury in a stabbing…
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt postponed Devan Green‘s trial from July to October, based on information that Green recently revealed to his lawyer, in a hearing on July 12….
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After parties deliberated over a “prior bad acts” motion in a domestic violence case, DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt allowed the defendant’s prior crimes to be submitted as evidence…
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