A defendant pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in connection with a fatal shooting from earlier this year.  NeQuan Carthens, who is also known as MeQuan Carthens, was initially charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Lagioria Brinkley on the 1900 block of 16th Street, SE, on March 20. Read more »

A murder trial previously set to take place in March 2023 was moved up one year.  Marquette Jordan is charged with second-degree murder while armed for allegedly stabbing 48-year-old Ivan Lynch on April 30, 2018, on the 900 block of 5th Street, SE. Read more »

An upcoming murder trial involving three co-defendants may be split into three separate trials in the aftermath of concerns over a material witness' competence to testify. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge scheduled hearing to determine if a murder case has enough evidence to go to trial. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge scheduled a murder case to go to trial in 2023. Read more »

Parties in a murder case prepared to go to trial later this month. Read more »

Two brothers charged in connection with a 2020 homicide asked a DC Superior Court judge to modify their curfews. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge scheduled a date for a sex abuse defendant to accept a plea deal. Read more »

On June 14, a DC Superior Court judge moved up the trial dates for four co-defendants charged in connection with a 2018 drive-by shooting that killed a 10-year-old girl. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge continued a murder case after realizing the June 4 hearing was scheduled by accident.  Marco Powell, also known as Tyrell Powell, is charged with first-degree murder while armed in the death of 22-year-old Semaj Alsobrooks. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge continued a May 18 hearing for a murder case that is currently awaiting indictment. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge continued a March 29 hearing in a sex abuse case. Read more »

A sex abuse defendant whose case got a DC statute invalidated has spent over a decade in St. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge rescheduled a March 12 trial readiness hearing since the defense counsel was could not appear in court.  Marquette Jordan, 28, is charged with first-degree murder while armed with a knife and threats to kidnap or injure a person. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge scheduled trial dates for two co-defendants charged in connection with a 2017 homicide.  Antonio Upshaw, 31, and Gabriel Brown, 33, are charged with first-degree murder while armed in the shooting of 24-year-old Tyrone Johnson during an alleged robbery gone wrong on March 10, 2017, on the 2300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.  Upshaw has been held since December 2017.  “Arrested over three years ago for an incident that happened over four years ago,” said Upshaw’s attorney, Ronald Resetarits, “I would like a lock in a trial date.” Brown has been held since March 2019. Read more »