D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz ruled Wednesday morning that she would admit as evidence expert testimony about a knife prosecutors say was planted by attorney Robert Wone’s dead body.
Three men are on trial, charged with covering up Wone’s stabbing.
A forensic expert testified last week about two experiments he did on the knife, found near Wone’s body in the defendants’ Dupont Circle townhouse on Aug. 2, 2006.
Leibovitz said that the tests, which recreated fabric imprint and fiber transfer patterns, “sufficiently and substantially recreated the circumstances of the stabbing.”
Lawyers for defenants Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward, all accused of covering up the slaying and misdirecting police, had argued that the experiments did not adequately replicate the crime scene.
