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

Parties in a murder case agreed to reschedule the defendants' trial to begin approximately one month earlier. 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 DC Superior Court judge imposed a 12-year sentence for a defendant who pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree child sex abuse. Read more »

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

Parties discussed how to proceed with a sex abuse case after the defendant was released from a civil commitment by the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) in August. 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 »

Parties delivered their opening arguments in a trial for the man accused of fatally shooting an 11-year-old boy.  Tony McClam is charged with first-degree murder while armed in the death of Karon Brown on July 18, 2019, on the 2700 block of Naylor Road, SE. Read more »

A defense attorney challenged a prosecutor's decision to use certain video evidence in an upcoming murder trial. Read more »

A sex abuse case is developing as the prosecution waits to give the defense discovery evidence. Read more »