Friday, February 15, 2013
Jung Min Jun, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y. pleaded guilty in November in Prince William County Circuit Court to murdering his brother-in-law.
A New York man will face sentencing at 2 p.m. Friday in Prince William County Circuit Court in the 2011 murder of Kwang Sup Hur, of Dale City. Jung Min Jun, 59, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y. pleaded guilty in November to mudering his elderly brother-in-law in an attempt to collect on a $1 million insurance policy that would have been paid out to his son. "Yes, I'm guilty," Jun told the judge, through an interpreter at a court appearance last year. The case shocked the residents of the River Run Senior Apartments in September 2011, when Hur's wife found him dead in their home. Court records show that Ho Young Jun—the son of Jung Min Jun and Jung Ok Jun—had obtained a $1 million life insurance policy on Hur a few years back. The three Juns …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Aaron Hijjmalike Thomas, 42, of Connecticut, changed his mind at the last minute about the plea he was scheduled to enter Tuesday morning.
The man accused of raping 17 women around the East Coast was scheduled to plead guilty Tuesday morning to attacks on three Prince William County women. Instead, he declined to plead guilty, and a trial is now expected to proceed in January. Aaron Hijjmalike Thomas, 42, of New Haven, Ct., could face several life sentences if convicted. Thomas paused for several long moments, his head hanging, while a deputy held on to a belt around his waist, after he was asked how he pleaded. Prince William County Circuit Court Judge Mary Grace O'Brien then pressed him again for an answer. "I'm not sure which way is wrong, which way is right," Thomas finally mumbled, his voice nearly inaudible. "I'm not sure I know what I'm doing." Prosecutors had …
Friday, October 26, 2012
A Prince William County Circuit Court judge appointed Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond Morrogh in October to prosecute the Justin Wolfe murder-for-hire retrial.
Nearly five dozen former judges, prosecutors and other attorneys signed a letter this week criticizing the appointment of the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney as special prosecutor in a decade-old capital murder case, and his decision to retry the defendant. A Prince William County Circuit Court judge in September appointed Raymond Morrogh to prosecute the case during the retrial of Justin Wolfe, a Chantilly High School graduate, who was convicted over a decade ago for ordering the murder of his drug supplier, Daniel Petrole Jr., of Centreville. Wolfe's conviction was thrown out by a federal judge last year, and the vacation of his sentence was subsequently upheld by an appeals court. The courts also criticized Prince William County …
Rick Young
6:23 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Throw the book at him, if convicted. At least 50 years. more ›