DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson sentenced a fatal shooting defendant to 32 years in prison on July 31, despite claims from the victim’s mother that other suspects were involved. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman sentenced a 1997 double homicide defendant to 24 years according to pre-2000 sentencing guidelines on July 16. Read more »

A fatal shooting defendant’s missing a July 24 court date might have resulted from an ankle injury sustained in jail, his attorney told DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman allowed a deposition of a forensic DNA technologist despite the defense's written objections in a first-degree murder case on July 14. Read more »

A jury in DC Superior Court’s Danya Dayson’s courtroom convicted one homicide co-defendant and acquitted the other on June 5. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson dismissed a defense request for a mistrial in a co-defendant homicide retrial on June 2. Read more »

The prosecution claimed co-defendants planned and carried out a fatal shooting as retaliation for their friend's murder in a retrial before DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson on May 12. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman ordered a homicide defendant undergo his fifth full mental competency evaluation on April 24.  Alberto Valle Carranza, 56, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder for his alleged involvement in the fatal domestic stabbing of 31-year-old Reyna Garcia Lopez on the 1200 block of 11th Street, NW on Dec. Read more »

At a hearing on March 27, a stabbing defendant entered a guilty plea before DC Superior Court Judge Jason Park ahead of a jury trial. Read more »

A jury delivered a guilty verdict in a nineteen-year-old homicide case before DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman on March 25.  Oscar Diaz-Romero, 47, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder for his involvement in the fatal shooting of Jose Noel Coreas-Carcaro, 22, and Jose Molina, 27, in a restaurant on the 2400 block of 18th Street, NW, on Aug. Read more »

Prosecutors argued before DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman on March 24 that victims in a 1997 homicide trial deserved to go home the night they were fatally shot. Read more »

Two eyewitnesses to a 1997 homicide testified through their Grand Jury transcripts in a trial before DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman on March 23. Read more »

Prosecutors alleged a defendant fatally shot two rival gang members during a fist fight in 1997 before DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman on March 17.  Oscar Diaz-Romero, 47, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder for his alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of Jose Noel Coreas-Carcaro, 22, and Jose Molina, 27, in a restaurant on the 2400 block of 18th Street, NW, on Aug. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman ordered the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) to provide an update on their efforts to restore a homicide defendant’s mental competence on Feb. Read more »

Before DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson, jurors heard sharply contradictory closing arguments on Feb. Read more »