B6 EZ RE the washington post.monday, february 24 , 2020
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NormalRichmondNorfolkOcean CityAnnapolisDoverCape MayBaltimoreCharlottesvilleLexingtonWashingtonVirginia BeachKitty HawkHarrisburg PhiladelphiaHagerstownDavisOCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:TemperaturesPrecipitationfor the 48 contiguous states excludes AntarcticaYe sterday's NationalSnow, past 24 hours
Snow, season total59° 3:00 p.m.
30° 7:00 a.m.
49°/32°
78 ° 18 74
11° 190758° 2:11 p.m.
19° 7:00 a.m.
48°/27°
77° 2017
5° 196360° 2:58 p.m.
23° 7:00 a.m.
47 °/28°
78 ° 18 74
5° 1963Washington 3:22 a.m. 8:40 a.m. 3:33 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
Annapolis 5:25 a.m. 11:43 a.m. 6:15 p.m. none
Ocean City 1:40 a.m. 7:59 a.m. 2:16 p.m. 8:10 p.m.
Norfolk 3:46 a.m. 10 :06 a.m. 4:12 p.m. 10 :16 p.m.
Point Lookout 1:29 a.m. 7:41 a.m. 2:17 p.m. 8:36 p.m.
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48 ° 59
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38 ° 47
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30 ° 44
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28 ° 42
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25 °Sun 6:48 a.m. 5:55 p.m.
Moon 7:39 a.m. 6:57 p.m.
Venus 8:33 a.m. 9:33 p.m.
Mars 3:36 a.m. 12:57 p.m.
Jupiter 4:26 a.m. 1:59 p.m.
Saturn 4:59 a.m. 2:44 p.m.Mar 2
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QuarterMar 9
FullMar 16
Last
QuarterMar 24
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1.8"Blue Ridge: Today, cloudy, afternoon rain. High 38–42.
Wind south 10–20 mph. Tonight, cloudy, rain. Low 33–37.
Wind south 8–16 mph. Tuesday, morning rain, cloudy. High
48–52. Wind southwest 8–16 mph. Wednesday, partly
sunny, showers. High 42–46.
Atlantic beaches: Today, increasingly cloudy. High 53–57.
Wind south 7–14 mph. Tonight, cloudy, rain. Low 42–47.
Wind south 6–12 mph. Tuesday, cloudy, rain. High 52–64.
Wind south 7–14 mph. Wednesday, mostly cloudy, showers.
High 53–65. Wind south 8–16 mph.
Pollen: Moderate
Grass Low
Tr ees Moderate
Weeds Low
Mold LowUV: Moderate
3 out of 11+Air Quality: Good
Dominant cause: Particulates55/4557 /4753/4554 /4457 /4352/ 4458/ 4455/ 4448 /4155/ 4653/ 4756/41 58/^4454 /4144 /34 57 /46
42°45°44°47°Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, increasingly cloudy,
afternoon shower. Wind south 4–8 knots. Waves under a foot. •
Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, increasingly cloudy,
afternoon shower. Wind south 4–8 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower
Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little
Falls will be 3.8 feet today, and holding nearly steady at 3.8 feet on
Tuesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
Albany, NY 52/34/s 45/35/r
Albuquerque 57/27/s 44/22/pc
Anchorage 18/8/pc 23/17/sn
Atlanta 54/51/r 68/45/r
Austin 74/43/pc 67/37/pc
Baltimore 58/44/pc 53/45/r
Billings, MT 39/20/sn 34/24/sf
Birmingham 58/53/r 63/43/pc
Bismarck, ND 32/19/sn 27/4/c
Boise 45/24/pc 46/27/pc
Boston 58/42/s 48/40/r
Buffalo 46/35/c 44/36/r
Burlington, VT 47/30/pc 40/30/c
Charleston, SC 66/57/c 68/59/r
Charleston, WV 48/42/r 62/44/r
Charlotte 50/46/r 68/49/r
Cheyenne, WY 32/16/sn 22/10/sn
Chicago 42/34/r 38/27/sn
Cincinnati 46/43/r 54/37/pc
Cleveland 47/39/r 45/39/r
Dallas 66/43/s 58/33/pc
Denver 38/18/c 26/12/sfDes Moines 41/29/c 36/19/sn
Detroit 44/35/r 41/34/r
El Paso 67/41/s 58/28/s
Fairbanks, AK 1/–18/s 2/–9/pc
Fargo, ND 30/19/sn 25/1/c
Hartford, CT 57/37/s 50/36/r
Honolulu 82/68/pc 82/71/s
Houston 76/50/sh 71/41/pc
Indianapolis 45/41/r 48/32/c
Jackson, MS 66/47/t 64/41/pc
Jacksonville, FL 77/62/c 76/61/r
Kansas City, MO 44/31/r 40/24/c
Las Vegas 70/47/s 63/42/s
Little Rock 67/42/t 59/35/pc
Los Angeles 72/53/pc 82/55/s
Louisville 50/47/r 56/36/pc
Memphis 62/44/r 57/36/pc
Miami 80/69/pc 84/71/pc
Milwaukee 39/33/c 36/27/sn
Minneapolis 37/27/pc 34/16/sn
Nashville 54/48/r 58/36/pc
New Orleans 73/59/t 66/50/r
New York City 56/43/pc 50/43/r
Norfolk 57/47/r 64/52/rOklahoma City 55/37/pc 51/27/c
Omaha 46/28/c 36/18/sn
Orlando 81/62/pc 85/66/c
Philadelphia 58/44/pc 51/45/r
Phoenix 72/49/s 71/45/s
Pittsburgh 47/38/r 50/42/r
Portland, ME 50/34/pc 43/33/r
Portland, OR 49/33/c 54/40/c
Providence, RI 56/40/s 50/38/r
Raleigh, NC 52/46/r 68/53/r
Reno, NV 61/32/s 61/34/pc
Richmond 55/45/pc 63/50/r
Sacramento 73/43/s 74/43/pc
St. Louis 50/37/r 44/30/c
St. Thomas, VI 82/74/sh 84/74/sh
Salt Lake City 42/25/c 41/25/s
San Diego 66/52/pc 78/57/s
San Francisco 64/47/s 68/48/s
San Juan, PR 82/74/sh 83/74/sh
Seattle 48/37/pc 50/43/c
Spokane, WA 43/25/s 43/29/s
Syracuse 47/32/c 43/36/sn
Tampa 78/65/s 80/67/pc
Wichita 51/32/r 41/24/cAddis Ababa 81/53/pc 82/54/pc
Amsterdam 51/42/r 46/37/c
Athens 62/50/s 64/49/s
Auckland 74/58/s 76/62/s
Baghdad 79/60/pc 70/50/r
Bangkok 96/73/pc 96/75/c
Beijing 55/38/c 50/31/c
Berlin 46/39/pc 48/34/sh
Bogota 67/50/r 67/47/sh
Brussels 55/40/c 48/35/sh
Buenos Aires 82/65/s 76/62/pc
Cairo 62/50/pc 66/51/pc
Caracas 74/66/pc 74/65/s
Copenhagen 43/38/c 43/34/sh
Dakar 79/72/pc 83/73/pc
Dublin 53/34/r 42/33/sh
Edinburgh 38/32/r 42/31/c
Frankfurt 54/47/c 51/34/r
Geneva 62/40/s 50/37/sh
Ham., Bermuda 64/55/pc 66/62/pc
Helsinki 38/22/pc 34/24/c
Ho Chi Minh City 96/73/pc 97/77/sHong Kong 73/67/pc 75/67/pc
Islamabad 76/48/pc 76/51/pc
Istanbul 54/42/c 54/47/s
Jerusalem 54/47/sh 52/47/sh
Johannesburg 76/52/pc 79/56/pc
Kabul 55/32/pc 55/33/pc
Kingston, Jam. 83/75/pc 82/76/sh
Kolkata 84/66/c 78/62/sh
Lagos 93/81/pc 89/79/pc
Lima 80/72/pc 80/73/pc
Lisbon 70/51/s 61/49/pc
London 54/37/r 48/36/sh
Madrid 69/35/s 61/38/pc
Manila 89/76/c 89/73/s
Mexico City 83/53/s 80/50/pc
Montreal 41/28/pc 37/26/c
Moscow 38/25/c 35/24/s
Mumbai 91/75/pc 92/76/pc
Nairobi 82/56/pc 84/61/c
New Delhi 79/56/pc 79/56/pc
Oslo 41/28/c 35/24/sh
Ottawa 41/26/pc 36/25/c
Paris 57/45/c 51/36/sh
Prague 44/40/pc 50/35/shRio de Janeiro 82/72/pc 86/76/t
Riyadh 89/68/pc 91/55/pc
Rome 63/49/pc 63/51/pc
San Salvador 86/66/s 86/66/pc
Santiago 80/53/s 86/57/s
Sarajevo 55/34/pc 63/44/pc
Seoul 55/42/pc 51/36/r
Shanghai 72/59/pc 74/47/pc
Singapore 86/78/pc 87/77/pc
Stockholm 40/23/pc 37/27/sh
Sydney 80/67/c 81/71/pc
Taipei City 81/63/pc 83/65/s
Tehran 62/50/c 52/45/r
Tokyo 56/46/s 57/48/pc
Toronto 44/31/c 40/32/c
Vienna 51/39/pc 59/42/pc
Warsaw 44/35/pc 52/34/shToday
Increasingly
cloudyTuesday
Cloudy,
showersWednesday
Mostly cloudy,
showersThursday
Mostly sunny,
breezyFriday
Partly sunny,
breezySaturday
Partly sunnyW Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W
through 5 p.m.yesterdayDifference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +5.5° yr. to date: +6.0°High: Fa lfurrias, TX 84°
Low: Boulder, WY –17°World
High: Kenieba, Mali 109°
Low: Summit Station, Greenland –68°Weather map features for noon today.WIND:SSW 4–8 mph
HUMIDITY:ModerateCHNCE PRECIP:10%FEELS*:59°W:
H:P:FEELS:55°E 6–12 mph
High55%
W:
H:P:FEELS:57°E 6–12 mph
High70%
W:
H:P:FEELS:40°W 10–20 mph
Low15%
W:
H:P:FEELS:36°WSW 10–20 mph
Low15%
W:
H:P:FEELS:36°WNW 8–16 mph
Low10%Partly sunny
Starting out clear, but clouds will be
increasing throughout the day. Any
and all precipitation should hold off
until after dark. Warm again with
highs in the mid- to upper 50s under
a south wind at 5 to 10 mph. Light rain breaks out
in the evening and lasts throughout the night.
milder, with lows in the low to mid-40s.
The Weather
washingtonpost.com/weather. twitter: @capitalweather. facebook.com/capitalweatherthat is happening in the shad-
ows,” Block said.
Her organization began focus-
ing on the issue in 2017 and has
identified 600 competitions
across the country in recent
years, including the two in mary-
land this winter. Block noted that
maryland otherwise has very
strong animal protection laws.
Christopher Cox, a military
veteran and hunting advocate
from Cecil County who started
the popular maryland Hunting
Addiction facebook page, said he
had never heard of the wildlife
competitions. Neither had any
members of the page whom he
queried, he said.
Cox said most hunters do not
target foxes, coyotes or raccoons
because they cannot be eaten by
their families or donated for food.
He guessed that the competi-
tions were being held in areas
where those animals were over-
populated and said “most hunt-
ers care deeply about conserva-
tion and being as humane as
possible while maintaining the
guidelines set forth by people
who study our animal popula-
tions and design programs to
keep them healthy.”
To m Kreiner, who has been
hunting in maryland since 2008,
said he agreed that hunters care
deeply about conservation and
ethical hunts. They might com-
pare who shot the biggest d eer, he
said, but they do not participate
in killing competitions.
Kreiner said he had not heard
about the competitions and
would be interested to learn
more. He said participants could
be “out there trying to ruin a
longtime sport for the ones who
do it legally and truthfully.”
Hunters in maryland are re-
quired to have licenses. To r eceive
them, they must receive a certifi-
cate of competence in firearms
and complete a hunting safety
program.
The investigator said there
were no officials checking to en-
sure that those participating in
the two wildlife-killing contests
in maryland this winter had
hunting licenses.
[email protected]overpopulation concerns from
the farming community, Stein
said.
Participants in the wildlife
contests typically try to kill the
most animals, or the heaviest
animals, animal rights advocates
say. Common targets are preda-
tors, including foxes, bobcats and
coyotes. Hunters sometimes use
automated “calls” that mimic the
sound of animals in distress to
draw in the prey and make it
easier to shoot them.
At the contest in Unionville, a
community about 45 miles north
of the District, participants said
they were “helping the balance of
nature” by killing the foxes, said
the Humane Society investigator,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to maintain their un-
dercover status.
But Humane Society chief ex-
ecutive Kitty Block said there is
no evidence to suggest that wild-
life-killing contests are effective
methods for animal control. And
the investigator said the main
purpose for most of the young
men who participated seemed to
be bragging rights and having
fun.
The investigator used a hidden
camera to take photos and video
of the event, where contestants
killed about 250 red foxes, coy-
otes and raccoons. Participants
talked about dumping the ani-
mals in a nearby landfill after
they were counted, the investiga-
tor said. There were children
present, including one young girl
dragging a dead fox.
A group called Predator Hunt-
ers of maryland organized the
event. Administrators of the
group’s facebook page did not
respond to requests for comment
from a reporter Wednesday. By
the next day, the page no longer
appeared to be public.
The Humane Society s aid there
was a similar contest this month
in the Charles County community
of Waldorf, about 25 miles south-
east of the District. It is not clear
who organized that event.
“This is really not something
that is accepted — it’s somethingwildlife from B1Hunts seen as ‘inhumane’
near Central Place and Gallaudet could face ban i n Md. bill
Street NE when, under the street-
lights, they saw the shooter grab
Ta mmy Peay a nd put her in a bear
hug. one witness said she heard
Ta mmy Peay say “Get off me”
before the shooter fired once at
her head.
Both witnesses said they
watched ramsey, who was wear-
ing a cast on his leg, try to run.
But he fell. The shooter, the wit-
nesses said, stood over him and
fired multiple times before hop-
ping on a 10-speed bike and
pedaling away.
The two witnesses identified
Bright as the shooter. But Benow-
itz questions their credibility.
Both had admitted to using drugs
and alcohol that night, Benowitz
said. And one of the witnesses
had a criminal case in maryland
and lied to a grand jury about his
identity when he testified in the
murder case.
Benowitz believes the “Cat-
man” was responsible for shoot-
ing ramsey in the leg during a
dice game days before his death,
giving him motive to return and
fire the fatal shots days later.
following multiple court hear-
ings last year, Benowitz sought
more information on who knew
about the “Catman” note. over
repeated objections from prose-
cutors, Benowitz planned to call
Ken Kohl, the former prosecutor
on the case, to testify.
It was then when prosecutors
made Bright an offer. To b ring the
hearings to an end and avoid
having one of their colleagues
testify, prosecutors agreed to
Bright’s release from prison. In
exchange, prosecutors required
that Bright sign an agreement
stating he would not sue the city.
Bright decided facing another
trial was riskier than accepting
the prosecution’s offer of time
served. So he abandoned his
quest for exoneration.
“I spent 312 months, 26 years,
in a cage,” Bright said. “I had to
weigh what was important. I was
supposed to trust the same gov-
ernment again with a new trial? I
wanted to get out of prison and
get on with my life.”
[email protected]magda Jean-louis contributed to this
report.shot in the head. I had gone to the
bathroom and heard her on the
phone screaming, ‘Tammy was
shot. Ta mmy was shot in the
head,’ ” he said.
Peay s aid he was shocked when
neighbors told his family that
Bright was the shooter. He and
his sister grew up with Bright, he
said. Peay also remembered that
Bright had a crush on his sister
when they were young.
After hearing of the other sus-
pect, Peay said he also knew
“Catman.” But it was odd, Peay
said, that anyone in the close-knit
neighborhood would confuse
“Catman” and Bright, because
both men were well known there,
and they did not look alike. “Cat-
man,” he said, was given the
nickname because of his light-
colored eyes.
ramsey’s family members
could not be reached for com-
ment.
During trial, a witness testified
he had heard Bright threaten
ramsey over a drug debt. Ta mmy
Peay, authorities determined, was
killed because she was with ram-
sey and would have been a wit-
ness.
According to court records,
two other witnesses told authori-
ties it was after 4 a.m. on July 24Inside was a note written four
days after the slayings by a D.C.
police lieutenant. It said an offi-
cer had received a tip that was
about a man who lived in that
neighborhood and was nick-
named “Catman.”
“He had receive info. that Cat-
man was the subject who com-
mitted the double murder on
Central Place, Northeast,” t he of-
ficer wrote. The officer also sup-
plied that person’s real name,
Social Security number and po-
lice department identification
number.
That note, however, was never
mentioned to Bright’s attorneys.
“That was definitely the jackpot,”
Benowitz recalled.
In criminal cases, prosecutors
are required to disclose all evi-
dence to defense attorneys, even
if that evidence undermines or
jeopardizes their case. Not doing
so could ultimately result in a
judge throwing out the entire
case.
After questioning the officers
involved in writing the “Catman”
note, Benowitz said he learned
police never investigated if the
man was actually involved.
In hindsight, Bright said he
was not surprised police charged
him in the killings. Not because
he was involved, but because he
was known by officers because of
his numerous arrests for selling
PCP and crack cocaine.
“A fter my parents divorced, I
began running around with the
wrong crowd. I know what I was
doing was wrong, but it doesn’t
justify them wrongly arresting
me for murder,” he said. “I was a
convenient suspect for them.”
About three weeks after the
shootings, detectives picked
Bright up and took him to the
station. “They kept asking me
where I was that night. It was a
month later, I couldn’t remember
where I was,” he said. He was
arrested and charged in the ho-
micides.
In a n interview, D wan Peay, 54,
said his sister had attended a
cookout earlier that evening near
her old neighborhood. After the
shooting, he recalled, residents in
that area began calling his fami-
ly’s home.
“ I just heard my grandmother
screaming that Ta mmy had beenHow could the man who was
found guilty of killing his sister be
released early for something Peay
said he views, based on a letter
from the District’s U.S. attorney’s
office, as a “technicality?”
Peay’s 28-year-old sister Ta m-
my, along with her friend, 33-
year-old William frederick ram-
sey, were killed early on a July
morning in 1994 in Ivy City, near
the Trinidad neighborhood
where they grew up.
During the trial in 1995, two
witnesses testified they saw
Bright shoot the friends. Bright’s
public defender argued Bright
was the victim of mistaken iden-
tity. Still, he was found guilty of
two counts of first- degree mur-
der while armed.
As he served a sentence of 65
years to life in prison, Bright said
he focused on trying to clear his
name. While working a $70-a-
month job in prison libraries,
stocking bookshelves and mak-
ing photocopies for inmates, he
also studied law books.
for years, Bright filed court
motions seeking relief. In 2007, a
judge assigned D.C. attorney Da-
vid Benowitz to his case. Benow-
itz and Bright spent 10 years
searching for ways to get Bright’s
conviction overturned. Then, in
2017, after Benowitz filed a free-
dom of Information Act request
on the case, a prosecutor within
the District’s U.S. attorney’s office
sent a folder created by the lead
detective on the case.
choice from B1
Convicted murderer walks free, b ut isn’t exonerated
Family photo
Tammy Peay, 28, was killed in a
double shooting in ivy city in- calvin Bright was
convicted of murder in the case.
“Everyone is trying to tell
me what I should have
done. I should have done
this or I should have
done that. But they
weren’t the ones sitting in
that cage all those years.”
Calvin Bright, 4 8, who opted for
immediate release over pushing for a
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