A motion hearing was delayed yet again, raising concerns that parties will not be ready to begin the homicide trial currently scheduled for Sept. Read more »

Members of the Metropolitan Police Department's internal affairs bureau are investigating an officer-involved shooting that killed a 42-year-old woman. 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 murdering a man he was attempting to rob after luring him with a fake ad he posted to an online marketplace. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge allowed the government to collect a buccal swab from the defendant charged in a deadly shooting outside an apartment building. Read more »

A murder defendant waived his right to independently test DNA evidence ahead of his trial. Read more »

Justin Ancheta is a second semester senior criminology major at the Catholic University of America. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge agreed to appoint new counsel for a murder defendant who said he was displeased with his lawyer's work in his case. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a man for forcing his way into his ex-girlfriend's home while armed with a pocket knife. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge relaxed the pretrial release conditions of a murder defendant after he spent approximately eight-and-a-half months on home confinement.  Quincy Johnson is charged with first-degree murder while armed in the shooting of 20-year-old Anthony Riley on July 17, 2020. 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 »

"My oldest son was killed on my second son's 34th birthday," James Eric Ferrell's mother said before the Chief Judge of the DC Superior Court sentenced the man convicted of his murder to 18 years in prison. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge set a sentencing date for a convicted manslaughter defendant who was brought to court on a bench warrant last month.  In February 2019, Terica Younger pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 43-year-old Talata Williams, who was killed in a vehicle collision on the 2400 block of Good Hope Road, SE, during the early hours of  Sept. Read more »

Holden Rafey is an undergraduate student at American University. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge granted a murder defendant’s request for new counsel. Read more »