Family of Slain Lawyer Sues Three Former Housemates

Ward was arrested four weeks ago in Miami, where he was living in a home that Price and Zaborsky purchased last year after they sold their Dupont Circle townhouse.

Ward also had to turn over his passport, agree to random drug testing and to abide by a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. According to his attorney, David Schertler, Ward will live with Price and Zaborsky in their rented apartment here, and return to his consulting job at AB Data.

Schertler objected to the monitoring device, saying his client is not a flight risk. "We believe that these three men did nothing wrong and we will be able to prove that at trial," Schertler said. Schertler said he believed an intruder entered the townhouse through the back door and killed Wone.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner said there were additional charges against the three men before a grand jury, but he declined to identify them.

The next hearing for the three men is scheduled for Dec. 19.

Price's attorney, Bernard Grimm, called the timing of the lawsuit, coming on the heels of Ward's arraignment, "unseemly." He said he believed that prosecutors and Wone's attorney were "working in concert."

"Normally you don't have the government and plaintiffs working together in wrongful death actions," Grimm said.

U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor declined to respond to Grimm's comments, but said his office has "provided Mr. Wone's family the same victim services that we typically provide all victims of violent crime, that is, copies of publicly filed documents and notification of all court proceedings."

Schertler, Ward's attorney, said the lawsuit was "misguided," and that none of the three men was involved in "any type of cover-up."