the popular deejay who's real name is raymond brown was gunned down in2006. 20ree week befa refoe . t ree week before the case was seto sego th e the witness, bobby ennels was killedn drive drive by shoin di ctined ma l jain edd an in l and rashad isex connecti wh ithis death using a witness intimidation law. >> the goal of the statute is to make sure that witness intimidation and violence doesn't prevent juries and ar. es from gettineythh theyneh >>edheo ar. >> reporter: jaisl ne alis ex it atede llwiths erll bobe arraigned inhene xt 30 days the case is expected to go to trial in late december or early january. >>> the trial for chandra levy's accused killer will go on as scheduled. a judge refused to push back the trial. a new witness has surfaced this think case who claims the suspect attacked her on an undisclosed jogging trail. levy disappeared in may of 2001. her body was found in rock creek park a year later. his lawyers will return to court for a status hearing in october. >>> senator chris dodd says he has prostate cancer. the connecticut democrat says doctors spotted the c

ct bdeteesivelieved he was killed because he was a witness es to the murder of raymond brown, known as scottie beats. >>> prosecutors say they have a new witness in the alleged kiing of chandra lieavy. >> his defense attorney says they need more time and information before they can defend ingmar guandique. they say there are at least 10 other people who could be investigated as suspects in this case. still, prosecutors say guandique is their man and they have a new witness to support the case. the identified with a says he or she was attacked on the jogging path and stabbed. the assailan according to this witness, looks just like ingmar guandique, the man prosecutors and police k -- claim is chandra levy's killer. he was brought back from a federal prison in california, locked up there for assaulting a two women in rock creek park at the same time levy disappeared. among them testifying, it would as who says he and two others grabbed a female with dark, curly hair, tied her up, and raped her. and when she came to, guandique allegedly strangled her. in a written statement, the defending

. >> reporter: raymond brown was shot and killed on october 17th, 2006.wo blocks from his mitchellville home. he had just called 911 to say his car a chrysler 300 was being stolen. three weeks before the case was set to go to trial the main witness was shot to death at th the ontinaofglll y in road and twining court. policeineddi ctthe n maedthey say kiedhi his brother is the alleged trigger man in the other death. both face charges in the death. >> violence and threats can't silence witnesses anytime. >> reporter: two people in the car were shot as they ran away. anthony cast died a few yards away. a 16-year-old girl fled to this 7-eleven and she survived. she's now in protective custody while the case proceeds. local prosecutors and others across the country are watching to see how this new witness intimidation protection law plays out. >> this will be one of the most important new laws for law enforcement that we have gotten out of annapolis in a long time. >> reporter: jamal and rashad alexis will be arraigned within 30 day the trial is expected to be

prevent juries and judges from neehaeydr >> repr:.arorte i>> reporter: it started with t murder of raymond brownalso known as scotty beat. he was shot dead near his largo home in 2006 after chasing and confront inging a car chief thae ad tow truck to steal his car. the police eventually arrested jammal alexis with that murder and shortly after that arrest, police say alexis began plotting to kill witnesses against him in that case and in october of 2007, bobby emal was shot to death near this intersection in landover and he had already been charged in connection with the brown murder and he agreed to testify against alexis and given grand jury testimony before he was killed. brotheashad was charged auausy appear in court.the in the akehe defense's job easier if that accuser didn't testify. under the new law, enacted in 2005, if the defendant@fwerful . >> there ute. therere's some that we are definitely going to have and use in the near future. >> reporter: a hearing on the state's attorney's motion is expected to be held next week. the brothers both face a number of charges. among them, obstruct

raymond scottie beats brown was gunned down in october of 2006. jamal alexis charged with the murder and then last october, a witness who was set to testify agains him was killed. the police arrested his brother for that murder. and today, a grand jury indicted the brothers on several co murder and witness intim death. a new maryland law will allow the dead witnesses grand jury testimony to be used in the trial. >> the goal of the statute is to make sure witness intimidation and violence didn't prevent jury's and judges from getting the evidence they need to hear this new law could help us make sure that the judge and jury hear all the evidence and that these murders don't silence the truth. >> if they're convicted, the alexis brothers could face the death penalty. >>> the boyfriend of a woman charged with kidnapping a new born baby cut from her mother's womb said she thought she was the baby's father. he tells the boston herald she was pregnant when they broke up. she claims she had the baby at the hospital last week. the baby's mother was found