Trial Pushed Back in 2015 Homicide Case
On Nov. 3, DC Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo granted a prosecutor’s motion to delay a homicide trial in connection to a 2015 incident. Eugene Burns, 31, was convicted of…
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On Nov. 3, DC Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo granted a prosecutor’s motion to delay a homicide trial in connection to a 2015 incident. Eugene Burns, 31, was convicted of…
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At a status hearing on April 21, DC Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo requested that the prosecution put their motion to delay the trial in writing before the court could…
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During an April 5 court proceeding, the prosecution asked for a continuance to finish reviewing four to five hundred documents related to a murder retrial. Eugene Burns, 31, is charged…
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During a Nov. 15 hearing, DC Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo placed a homicide case under a private seal when the prosecutor said an important document was missing, which resulted…
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DC Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo said she needed more information on counsel’s trial readiness of a murder case in which the defendant is accused of killing his best friend. …
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A DC Superior Court Judge Marisa J. Demeo grants a motion to suppress evidence on June 22 as attorneys prepare for trial. Eugene Burns, 30, is charged with first-degree murder…
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In August 2020, the reversal of a murder conviction rippled through the DC Superior Court, touching enough cases that the defendant’s last name became like jargon. Now, parties are preparing…
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A DC Superior Court judge disqualified the Public Defender Service (PDS) from representing a defendant in a reopened murder case. In 2017, Eugene Burns was convicted of first-degree murder while…
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There were 12 homicides in October 2017 and nine cases were resolved. Here is our monthly wrap-up of cases covered in October. Homicides Of the 12 homicides, ten of them…
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There were twelve homicides in the month of July, and three cases were put to rest with a guilty verdict or plea. Though there were the same number of homicides…
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In the two-and-a-half years that D.C. Witness has been tracking homicides, there have only been five jury trials resulting in a guilty verdict. This summer saw a lot of cases…
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The man charged with the murder of Onyekachi Osuchukwu III testified at his own trial that he shot his friend in self defense during an argument about their strategy for selling drugs….
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