A 31-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a man in a commercial area of the Congress Heights neighborhood. Read more »

Parties met in court to discuss the possibility of changing the sentencing date for a young man who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2019. Read more »

The defendant charged in 36-year-old Jimmy Beynum’s murder wrote a letter to the judge assigned to his case asking for a new attorney.  Taylor Emanuel, 38, is charged with first-degree murder while armed in connection with a shooting that killed Beynum on Jan. Read more »

Approximately one month before a 2019 murder case was set to go to trial, the defendant accepted a plea deal.  Diquan Lucas pleaded guilty to shooting 33-year-old Brian Butler in his apartment on the 2100 Block of I Street, NE. On Sept. 9, 2019, Lucas entered the apartment and saw Butler in the living area.  An argument broke out between the two which quickly became physical. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge reviewed multiple motions in a murder case as parties gear up to go to trial next month. Read more »

A man accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl was given more time to consider a plea offer. Read more »

A prosecutor said he's working towards an indictment and a plea offer in a murder case. Read more »

A prosecutor informed a DC Superior Court judge they are in the process of extending a plea offer to a murder defendant. Read more »

Editor’s note: On May 30, 2024 a jury acquitted Devonte Brothers of all charges connected to the homicide of Deron Leake. Read more »

More than two years after Jamal Bandy was fatally shot in Congress Heights, the defendant charged in his death took a plea deal that includes an agreement between parties to recommend a six-and-a-quarter-year prison sentence. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge told prosecutors to show him why he should not dismiss a 2019 murder case following their alleged failure to disclose evidence even as the trial approached. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge set a deadline for a prosecutor to turn over video evidence in a murder case set to go to trial this spring. Read more »

The prosecutor in a murder case has yet to send the defense certain evidence they requested, leading to arguments in court. Read more »

DNA evidence in a murder case is now ”first in line” to be tested, according to a prosecutor. Read more »

A murder defendant asked to be represented by counsel outside the Public Defender Service (PDS). Read more »