Evidence concerning a brother of a defendant is relevant in the trial of the three men accused of covering up the killing of Robert Wone, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday morning.
Prosecutors can introduce evidence about Michael Price, the brother of Joseph Price, who, with his housemates Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward, is accused of covering up the crime scene and misdirecting police after Wone was found dead in their Dupont Circle townhouse in August 2006.
Prosecution witnesses are expected to testify that Michael Price had a key to the house, missed a class that he regularly attended the night of the killing, had demonstrated violent behavior and acted inappropriately after Wone’s death.
That evidence, Judge Lynn Leibovitz said, is relevant to prosecutors’ case that the defendants tampered with evidence and conspired to cover-up the killing.
The ruling was Leibovitz’s second in the prosecution’s favor Tuesday. She also ruled that experiments conducted by a forensics expert sufficiently recreated the conditons of the crime scene.
