INGLEWOOD, Calif. (CNS)—A Los Angeles judge April 12 denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case of Robert Durst, a New York real estate scion charged with murder for a longtime friend’s killing in Benedict Canyon just before Christmas Eve 2000, ruling that evidence the defense sought to exclude can be admitted.
Durst’s defense team argued that the case against their client is circumstantial and that evidence that he dismembered the body of his Texas neighbor—in a separate case in which he was acquitted—would inflame the jury and should not be allowed at trial.
