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Prosecutors asserted Oct. 1 that a defendant accused of driving a vehicle where shots were fired from is “just as guilty as if he fired the weapon himself,” during closing…
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt delayed a ruling regarding a defendant’s motion for release to allow the prosecution time to respond in writing on Oct. 2. Santos Duarte, 24,…
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt limited the scope of a non-fatal shooting victim’s testimony on Sept. 30 due to late disclosures by the prosecution and instructed that the jury…
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt found there was enough evidence to take a shooting case to trial on Sept. 27 because of video footage of the defendant allegedly shooting…
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt considered sanctioning a prosecutor about disclosing information on Sept. 26. Jamal Coleman, 31, is charged with assault with intent to kill while armed and…
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt granted a prosecutor’s request to introduce a shooting defendant’s prior bad acts through the victim’s testimony on Sept. 24. Jamal Coleman, 31, is charged…
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A jury convicted a shooting defendant of nine out of 11 charges, following a multi-week long trial before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt on Sept. 24. Adrian Lee, 49,…
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During a jury trial in DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt’s courtroom on Sept. 25, the prosecution labeled a non-fatal shooting as a “neighborhood dispute that went too far.” Jamal…
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Adrian Lee‘s defense attorney, Albert Amissah, said Lee fired a gun in reasonable fear for his life. Meanwhile, the prosecution said he used unjustified deadly force in a verbal altercation….
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DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt sentenced a defendant who provided the guns for a shooting to 108 years and six months in prison on Sept. 19. Stephen Nelson, 22,…
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A homicide defendant waived his right to independently test DNA evidence during a Sept. 20 hearing before DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt. David Pena, 47, is charged with second-degree…
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In a trial before, DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt on Sept. 18, the jury heard the defendant’s pregnant wife say that a confrontation after a car accident left her…
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