A defense attorney discussed his plans for testing DNA evidence in a homicide trial set to begin in April of 2023.  On Feb. Read more »

A judge sentenced a homicide defendant to 11 years in prison after hearing multiple victim impact statements from family members. Read more »

A defendant accused of sexually assaulting two women rejected a plea offer on June 9. Read more »

During a June 9 hearing, DC Superior Court Judge Milton Lee found a murder defendant mentally competent to stand trial.  Karon L. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge decided he needed more time to determine if he should accept a plea deal for a man convicted in the shooting of a 27-year-old father. Read more »

The defendant charged in a deadly hostel shooting pleaded guilty to a non-homicide charge.  Nathan Hunter, 40, and Ronald McKnight, 44, were at the DC International Hostel in the Shaw neighborhood during the early hours of April 18, 2021, when an altercation broke out between the two in a first-floor communal bathroom that ended with McKnight being shot twice in the head. Read more »

A defendant was sentenced for his role in the 2016 robbery turned murder of a transgender woman. Read more »

A murder defendant accused of setting a man on fire rejected a plea offer. Read more »

A Metropolitan Police Department detective detailed the investigation into the death of a man who was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a Capitol Hill neighborhood elementary school's athletic field during a preliminary hearing. Read more »

A defendant was sentenced to a period of supervised probation for a firearm charge after prosecutors dropped his second-degree murder charge as part of a plea deal. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a woman for killing 43-year-old Talata Wiliams in a 2017 car accident.  Terica Younger was scheduled to be sentenced in February, but attorneys were made aware of uncertainty within the parameters of the plea agreement and had to postpone. Read more »

A defendant pleaded guilty to stabbing a man to death after a car chase. Read more »

One day after attorneys delivered closing arguments, a jury found Mark Bowser guilty of murdering Tracy Womack in a Marshall Heights neighborhood apartment complex nearly eight years ago. Read more »

A defendant accepted a plea deal for the murder of a pregnant woman in January. Read more »

Mark Bowser is accused of stabbing 39-year-old Tracy Womack more than 40 times during the early hours of Sept. Read more »