Durst's bail is raised a billion - Panel delivers new indictment

[Ediacara]

Feb. 13, 2004, 2:10PM

Durst's bail is raised a billion
Panel delivers new indictment


Surrounded by his attorneys,
Robert Durst reacts to his
acquittal in the death of his
neighbor, Morris Black. He
claimed self-defense but admitted
dismembering Black and throwing
the body parts into Galveston Bay.

By KEVIN MORAN
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

GALVESTON -- The price of freedom for jailed New York millionaire Robert Durst rocketed from $2 billion to a staggering $3 billion Thursday.

State District Judge Susan Criss raised Durst's bail after a Galveston County grand jury indicted Durst on a charge of tampering with physical evidence by tossing neighbor Morris Black's body parts into Galveston Bay in garbage bags.

Prosecutors refused Thursday to comment on the new indictment against Durst. Although a jury on Nov. 11 found Durst not guilty of murdering Black, prosecutors have vowed to try Durst for twice failing to appear in court after he was charged Oct. 9, 2001, in Black's death.

"This indictment is nothing other than pure getting even and a panicky reaction by the prosecution to an adverse verdict," Durst defense attorney Mike Ramsey said Thursday. "And a billion-dollar bond makes a mockery of Texas law."

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[JoFerret]

1. "...a mockery of Texas law"

As if.

[sarin]

2. oh!

for a second I thought that was Fred Durst that guy from Limp Bizkit, but eh, wishful thinking I suppose.

sarin

[alarimer]

3. this guy

Is a real piece of work. I was watching an A&E show about his first wife and her disappearance. I don't know if her body was ever found but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that he killed her. He also may have had something to do with the murder of another woman in California, a friend of his who helped cover up for him in his wife's disappearance.

[JoFerret]

4. He is mentally ill.

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