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Post by Tom on Jul 15, 2015 0:12:10 GMT
Durst admitted that he dismembered the body of Black.
Why was he not charged with such things as tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, failing to report a crime, something to do with not handling corpses properly, littering, etc.
They charged him with murder only and the jury found him not guilty of murder.
Can anyone explain why the prosecution was so stupid that they didn't proffer other charges so that the stupid jury felt they had no other choice but to find him not guilty?
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Post by shrederick on Jul 15, 2015 0:14:58 GMT
He plead guilty to 2 counts of bond jumping and one count of evidence tampering and ended up serving < 1 year of a 3 year sentence before being paroled. He then ran into his sentencing judge (at a mall near the house Black was killed in, in Galveston) and ended up serving ~4 months for violating his parole. All of this is if wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst#Trial) is to be believed, but I recall reading about it somewhere else too. Still crazy how little time he actually got for that though.
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Post by ieatsushi on Jul 15, 2015 0:15:33 GMT
They did charge him with improper disposal of a body. He took a plea deal and spent some time in prison.
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Post by enterthecircus on Jul 15, 2015 1:58:10 GMT
I could be wrong but I'm guessing they didn't want to give the jury too many options besides finding him guilty of murder.
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