Monday, April 29, 2013
Top news of the week from our Patches around Virginia and DC.
Patch has 31 community sites in Virginia and D.C. Here are some of the top stories from around the region over the past week. 16. Mark Wahlberg Visits: Actor Mark Wahlberg visited T.C. Williams High School on Wednesday morning for an assembly presented by Get Schooled, a nonprofit that aims to engage high school students in an effort to improve graduation rates and empower more students to achieve in college. “I had to work really hard to get where I’m at,” Wahlberg said. “And I don’t mind working really hard to try and maintain it." 15. Runner Pledges 30 Races: Arlington resident Lauren Bailey is halfway through a personal challenge that has been daunting and exhilarating — running 30 races in one year, the year of her 30th birthday. …
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Prosecutors reportedly threaten triggerman and are ordered to appear Thursday in Norfolk to show cause why Chantilly man should not be released.
A federal judge has ordered Virginia prosecutors to appear in court Thursday to discuss the re-trial of Justin Michael Wolfe and to explain why the original prosecutors are alleged to have pressured the triggerman in the case to testify on their behalf. Wolfe spent nearly a decade on death row before Judge Raymond A. Jackson vacated convictions related to the March 15, 2001 murder of Daniel Robert Petrole Jr. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld the decision, the state was given 120 days to re-try or release Wolfe. A trial is set for January in Prince William County Circuit Court, so it’s unclear if the progress toward the trial concerned Jackson, who appeared more concerned about a visit paid by Prince William …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Virginia has appealed a federal judge’s decision to vacate the convictions and sentences regarding Daniel Robert Petrole Jr.’s 2001 murder.
Virginia’s appeal of a federal court decision to vacate the conviction and sentence of Justin Michael Wolfe—who a Prince William County jury sent to death row in 2002 for murder-for-hire—goes before the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond on May 17. Owen Merton Barber IV, of Centreville, testified before a federal judge in 2010 that he made up his testimony against Wolfe, of Chantilly, under pressure from prosecutors and his own defense attorney. Barber followed Daniel Robert Petrole Jr. for more than an hour before blocking his car along a dead-end street in front of Petrole’s Bristow home and killing him. In his order vacating the convictions, U.S. District Court Judge Raymond A. Jackson said prosecutors withheld exculpatory …
Jennifer
7:29 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The prosecutorial misconduct, at every junction of this case, since the beginning ans still continuing, is bone-chillingly horrifying. more ›