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Homicide Defendant Violates Recently Modified Pretrial Release Conditions

Details On Oct. 28, DC Superior Court Judge Maribeth Raffinan gave a homicide defendant one more chance to comply with the conditions of his house arrest order before deciding to revoke... Read More

Judge Releases Murder Defendant on Home Confinement

Details DC Superior Court Judge Milton Lee released a co-defendant in a murder case after serving nearly five years in pretrial confinement. Gabriel Brown 33, and Antonio Upshaw, 33, are charged... Read More

Additional Witnesses Introduced Day Before Homicide Trial

Details Both parties sought to include additional witnesses and evidence during an Oct. 11 motion hearing in preparation for an upcoming murder trial. Each party claimed the other’s new witness was... Read More

Judge Gives Prosecution More Time to Discuss Motion to Sever

Details On Oct. 7, DC Superior Court Judge Milton C. Lee scheduled another hearing to give the prosecution time to discuss a motion to sever one of the co-defendants in a... Read More

Judge Grants One Homicide Defendant’s Request to Modify Release Conditions, Other’s is Still Pending

Details During an Oct. 5 status hearing, two homicide defendants requested to modify their release conditions. Alonzo Brown, 25, and Naquel Henderson, 25, are charged with first-degree murder while armed,... Read More

Judge Reschedules Sentencing for Co-defendants in Homicide Case

Details DC Superior Court Judge Robert Okun agreed to reschedule a sentencing hearing for a 2017 homicide case. Quincy Garvin, 22, and Saquan Williams, 20, were arrested and initially charged with... Read More

Judge Removes GPS Tracking from Defendant Accused of Killing Her Child

Details During an Aug. 5 hearing, DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt allowed a defendant accused of killing her 16-month-old child to be taken off GPS monitoring while on pretrial release. ... Read More

Judge Releases 2 Homicide Defendants to Home Confinement

Details During a hearing on Aug. 2, DC Superior Court Judge Milton Lee released two homicide defendants into home confinement and GPS monitoring. Alonzo Brown, 25, and Naquel Henderson, 25, are... Read More

Judge Denies Prosecutor’s Motion to Admit Witness Statements

Details After listening to counsel arguments on July 29, DC Superior Court Judge Maribeth Raffinan decided not to admit a contested witness’s statements about a homicide defendant. Robert Moses, 23, and... Read More

Judge Denies Release for Former D.C. Police Officer Charged With Child Sex Abuse

Details DC Superior Court Judge Robert Okun denied releasing a former Metropolitan Police Department officer on July 18. He also rescheduled the officer’s preliminary hearing. A former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)... Read More

Jury Delivers Partial Verdict in 2018 Drive-By Shooting Trial

Details A jury found one co-defendant guilty of multiple charges including first-degree murder as it returned a partial verdict in a month-long murder trial. Saquan Williams, 20, and Quincy Garvin, 22,... Read More

Defense Rests Case, Raises Suspicion of Inside Job During Homicide Trial

Details The defense rested their case in a homicide trial on July 6 after one day of calling witnesses who alluded to the possibility of the murder being committed by the... Read More