The stab wounds that killed Robert Wone would have left him unconscious and unable to defend himself within five to 10 seconds, a cardiac surgeon testified Tuesday.
The wound to Wone’s aorta and left anterior descending artery would have caused “torrential hemorrhage” internally, Dr. Farzad Najam, associate director of cardiac surgery at George Washington University Hospital.
A forensic pathologist testified for the prosecution last week that Wone’s lack of defensive wounds was unusual.
Prosecutors theorize that Wone was injected with a drug that caused paralysis before he was killed. Joseph Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky are on trial for allegedly covering up Wone’s Aug. 2, 2006, death in their Dupont Circle townhouse.
