Fourth Circuit Critical of Prosecutors in Wolfe Case
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision overturning a murder-for-hire conviction.
Virginia and Prince William County prosecutors were handed another rebuke by a federal court related to the trial of Justin Michael Wolfe, whose conviction for ordering the murder of Daniel Robert Petrole Jr. was overturned last year. Wolfe, 31, from Chantilly, learned Thursday that the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court ruling that convictions and sentences related to the death of Daniel Robert Petrole Jr. should not stand, primarily because of the lack of disclosure of exculpatory evidence by the prosecutors. Wolfe’s family was tempered in their elation, being mindful that the case centered on the death of another young man. “We must never forget the victim of this crime,” said Terri Steinberg, Wolfe’s mother, in…
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DAVE ROBERTS
1:33 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
MY PREDICTION-The case will be sent back to Prince William County and a special prosecutor will be brought in for the retrial. They will take the death penalty off the table and he will be reconvicted after a long trial. ...See More more ›