DC Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan sent a homicide defendant to a halfway house based on mental health issues after she pleaded not guilty at an arraignment on April 28.
When Anna Hyman, 23, was arrested on July 26, 2025, she was originally charged with second-degree murder while armed for her alleged involvement in the fatal stabbing of Robert Dent, 63, that occurred the same day at the unit block of Galveston Street, SW. Dent sustained 55 stab wounds all across his body.
The court arraigned Hyman on the charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed that she now faces and her attorneys, Jesse Winograd and Elizabeth Weller, entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf…