Justin Wolfe Held Without Bail Until Retrial
On Oct. 15th, former death row inmate Justin Wolfe will go back on trial for allegedly ordering the murder of Daniel Petrole, Jr.
A Prince William County Circuit Court judge denied bail for former death row inmate Justin Wolfe, who will stand trial again this October for allegedly ordering the murder of his drug supplier, Daniel Petrole Jr., of Centreville, in 2001. Wolfe’s retrial will go before a jury on Oct. 15 and is scheduled to last for three weeks. The Chantilly man’s previous conviction was thrown out due to what a federal judge described as prosecutorial misconduct—but special prosecutor Raymond Morrogh indicated to Judge Mary Grace O’Brien the state has enough evidence to convict. Morrogh, the commonwealth’s attorney for Fairfax County, officially took over the prosecution’s case Friday, after Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert and …
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Zeivah
12:59 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wow - Sabrina I hope you never get caught up with a bad cop or prosecutor. Owen Barber pumped 21 bullets into Daniel Petrole and then lied to an eager prosecutor to save his own skin. For that he will be out lurking around your neighborhood soon as part of a plea deal. To pump that many bullets into someone at close range takes a special kind of human being - he then watched the life drain out of… more ›