A homicide defendant refused to proceed with a June 27 status conference unless the judge agreed to appoint him new attorneys. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a defendant on felony sex abuse charges for forcing himself on a woman in her Kingman Park neighborhood apartment. Read more »

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. Read more »

This case was acquitted on Nov. Read more »

A woman implored a DC Superior Court judge to impose a harsher sentence than what was outlined in the plea deal for the man convicted of killing her brother.  On March 25, 2020, Zenus Epps was found on the 3500 block of A Street, SE, with a single gunshot wound to the head. Read more »

A man charged for his alleged role in a fatal stabbing that his counsel has described as self-defense received a plea offer from the prosecution. Read more »

A man charged with manslaughter in his father's death was scheduled to go to trial next year. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a man to prison for sexually abusing a family member when she was approximately nine years old. Read more »

After approximately five days of deliberations, a jury returned a partial verdict in a murder trial. Read more »

After a two-week delay and multiple other complications along the way, a trial centered on an 11-year-old's fatal shooting wrapped up with parties delivering their closing arguments before the case was handed off to the jury. Read more »

A murder trial was put on hold after the defendant tested positive for COVID-19. Read more »

The man accused of murdering 11-year-old Karon Brown one summer evening in Naylor Gardens took to the witness stand to testify in his own defense at trial.  The defendant, Tony McClam, is charged with first-degree murder while armed in Brown’s shooting.  While parties agree that McClam shot at a vehicle on July 18, 2019, the defense asserts that he did so because he thought the driver intended to attack him. Read more »

Prosecutors called their final witnesses to the stand during a trial for the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Karon Brown. Read more »

A defense attorney in a murder case requested his client’s release from DC Jail, citing the facility's conditions as well as the lack of an indictment more than 17 months after the defendant’s arrest. Read more »

Prosecutors are keeping a plea deal for two murder co-defendants on the table until the next status hearing in January. Read more »