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Judge Kent gears up
Embattled U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Galveston (previous posts here) is battening down the hatches with an addition to his defense team -- prominent Houston-based criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin. This John Council/Brenda Sapino Jeffreys/Texas Lawyer article reports that...
Robert Durst's rather odd holiday season
You just never know who you are going to bump into during the holiday season at Houston's famed Galleria shopping mall. Robert Durst -- the wealthy heir who was acquitted of murder after killing his neighbor, chopping up the body...
Durst case finally comes to a close
After killing his neighbor three years ago and dumping the butchered body into Galveston Bay and then winning an acquittal in his subsequent 2003 murder trial, Robert Durst -- an heir to a New York family's real estate fortune --...
Durst finally granted reasonable bail
The Texas 14th Court of Appeals finally lowered Robert Durst's bail to $450,000 from the absurd $3 billion amount that Galveston State District Judge Susan Criss had set earlier this year. Here are earlier posts on the Durst murder case....
WSJ on Mike Ramsey
This Wall Street Journal ($) article profiles Houston criminal defense attorney, Mike Ramsey, who is heading up the criminal defense team that is defending former Enron Chairman and CEO, Kenneth Lay. The article captures Mr. Ramsey's homespun wit in the...
Robert Durst bond amount struck down as unreasonable
The incredible murder case involving Robert Durst finally took an expected turn on Wednesday as the 14th Court of Appeals struck down state district Judge Susan Criss' absurdly high $3 billion bond as a condition for Durst's release pending his...
The Durst Lawyer Annuity
The Chronicle reports on more developments in the ongoing saga of Robert Durst and his high profile defense team. Although the bail jumping charges appear to be legitimate, it strikes me that the other charges being pursued against Durst (abuse...
Let's tee it up again
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that a Galveston County Grand Jury has indicted Robert Durst again, this time on charges of "tampering with evidence" (I'm not sure that's exactly how I would characterize cutting up a corpse and throwing it...
Isn't This an Interesting Way to Become Friends?
Based on this Houston Chronicle story, a budding friendship appears to be one of the results of the recent well-publicized murder trial of Robert Durst in Galveston. Dick DeGuerin, Durst's attorney, is another of the unusual number of excellent Houston-based...
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