Photo by volcanojwToday’s update in the Washington Post from the trial of Joseph Price and co-defendants Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward reveals that the prosecution narrowed its focus this week on one piece of evidence regarding the alleged conspiracy to murder Robert Wone: the knife. The case took two significant turns this week.
According to the prosecution, the knife in question is not the weapon that was used to kill Wone. Rather, the argument goes, it was planted on Wone by one of the three co-defendants — or by an unknown fourth individual, potentially the person the prosecution suspects to be the murderer — while the real murder weapon used to stab Wone to death remains missing. So prosecutors believe that by focusing specifically on one specific aspect of the murder — how did Joseph Price find the knife? — they may be able to tease out discrepancies in the telling of the tale. Kind of like the prisoner’s dilemma.
The other interesting detail from the case, as Rend Smith reports: The court compelled the Louis Hinton, the former lover of Michael Price — who brother to Joseph Price and a figure prosecutors suspect but have not charged with Wone’s murder — to testify against Michael Price.
Prosecutors told the Post they hope to wind up their case by tomorrow, though (to the armchair jurist) it hardly seems clear what that case is — other than riveting. Consider today that a three-way, sexually committed relationship that included sexual encounters with the neighbor and the neighbor’s friend is described as “very progressive.” I’ll say.
