A child sex abuse defendant rejected a plea deal during a July 20 hearing.  The defendant was indicted on 17 counts, including first-degree child sex abuse where the defendant was under the age of 12 and second-degree child sex abuse where the victim was under the age of 12. Read more »

During a July 14 hearing, DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt addressed scheduling issues regarding an upcoming preliminary hearing for a child sex abuse defendant.  The 30-year-old defendant has been charged with first-degree child sex abuse. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Milton Lee sentenced a homicide defendant in a 2019 homicide case to over six years in prison.   On the evening of July 21, 2019, Metropolitan Police Department officers found 27-year-old Jamal Bandy suffering from multiple gunshot wounds on the 1300 block of Congress Street, SE. Read more »

A homicide defendant's lawyer requested June 16 that his client receive mental health treatment after witnessing the death of a fellow inmate. Read more »

DC Superior Court Judge Milton Lee denied a request for release from a defendant accused of shooting his father during an altercation.  Stephon Williams, 31, is charged with second-degree murder while armed, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and carrying a pistol outside a home or business. 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 »

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 »

A DC Superior Court judge set a retrial date for the defendant charged in 11-year-old Karon Brown's death after his first trial ended with a partial verdict. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge scheduled a murder defendant to go on trial in 2024. Read more »

This case was acquitted on Nov. 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 man charged with manslaughter in his father's death was scheduled to go to trial next year. Read more »

A DC Superior Court judge arraigned a domestic homicide defendant. 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 »