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Albrecht Muth is currently mentally and physically incapable of representing himself against charges involving the death of 91-year-old Georgetown socialite Viola Herms Drath, Judge Russell Canan said today.

Muth was not at today’s felony status hearing as he was hospitalized again last night. Canan said Muth will be in a grave situation if his current medical status does not change and that further examination is ongoing.

“I was told enough information by the medical director … to give the court sufficient concern over his [Muth’s] mental ability and physical ability to proceed” as his own counsel, Canan said.
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This Comment of the Day comes from Ashleysfuneralgroup@gmail.com regarding Deoni JaParker Jones:

Attention Family and Friends: Thank you all for the support and love that has been expressed to the family of JaParker Deoni Jones. Currently there has been a change of services for security reasoning. JaParker Jones funeral service will be held at the Covenant Baptist Church, located at: 3845 South Capitol Street SW Washington, DC. Service date will remain the same, for this Saturday Feb. 11, 2012. Viewing time begins at 9:00am with Funeral Services to begin at 11:00am. Please come out to support the family and friends and express your love an kindness to the family during this tragic time. Metropolitan Police Dept. will be providing a strong police presents for security. Thank you for your support. for further detailes, please contact:
Ashley-Latney Funeral Home (Shaun Ashley Reid) funeral director at the following: 202-688-2400 or 571-327-4555 God Bless

More than 200 people attended a vigil Tuesday night for Deoni JaParker Jones, a transgender woman fatally stabbed in Northeast DC last week, the Washington Blade reports.

Wrote the Blade:

Surrounded by family members and friends, Jones’ stepfather, Alvin Bethea, made an emotional appeal for witnesses to come forward to identify a male suspect that police believe stabbed Jones in the face about 8:15 p.m. at the bus stop at East Capitol Street and Sycamore Road, N.E.
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Two men accused of taking part in fatal shooting during a craps game in Southeast DC are expected to stand trial Monday.

Judge Thomas Motley on Tuesday ordered government and defense attorneys to be ready for trial Monday morning. Defense counsel for one of the defendants, Curtis Patterson, had argued at the last several status hearings to postpone the trial. Motley refused, saying that his trial calendar for the year was already filled and that a continuance would inordinately delay the case.

Angelo Jones, known as “Lochie,” was shot multiple times in the early morning hours of Oct. 2. At a preliminary hearing, MPD Homicide Detective James Wilson testified that according to a witness, Jones was playing craps with a group of people in a parking lot off of Dix St. when Rickey Pharr approached the group and accused Jones of cooperating with law enforcement in a criminal investigation.
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Patricia Cave will wait another five weeks before her trial on the charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed, after her defense counsel today told Judge Ronna Beck that she wouldn’t have the case ready in time for trial.

The trial was set for Feb. 21; it is now scheduled for March 19.
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In brief:

Albrecht Muth, suspected of killing his wife, 91-year-old Viola Drath, is on a hunger strike and has been hospitalized.

According to court documents, a juvenile murder suspect has told the government that he, not Rashid Caviness-Bey, shot and killed 19-year-old Osman Al-Akbar near Meridian Hill Park in August.

A mental health report on Robert Carter, charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of his daughter, Angel Morse, includes Carter’s own accounting for what happened the afternoon Morse was killed. He has pleaded innocent.

Court documents outline the legal reasons Brian Gaither, suspected in the death of Latisha Frazier, would like to sever his case from his codefendant’s case.

Reginald Rogers was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder while armed, first-degree felony murder while armed, and other charges in connection with a deadly Jan. 2010 robbery. Calvin Woodland, Jr., the son of the late community activist Calvin Woodland, Sr., was killed in the robbery.

Deoni Japarker Jones, a transgender woman, was fatally stabbed at a bus stop in Northeast DC. A video of a suspect has been released, but no arrests have been announced.

MPD has received tips regarding a baby girl found abandoned on Jan. 15, but still has not identified the girl, Lt. Robert Alder said Friday. Earlier in the week police released a photo of the towel the girl was found wrapped in.

MPD has released a video in connection with the stabbing death of Deoni Japarker Jones in Northeast DC Thursday night.
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MPD recently released this photo of a towel the infant was found wrapped in.

She was found on a doorstep the night of Jan. 15 and died shortly after. The night she was found was freezing cold. She is a black infant, believed to be approximately one month old.
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A transgender woman fatally stabbed in Northeast DC Thursday night was 22-year-old Deoni Jones, the DC Trans Coalition reported Friday evening.

Jones was known to friends as “Japarker.”

Memories of Jones are after the jump. Leave your own in comments, or tweet them to @homicidewatch.
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