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Summary Of The Morris Black Case

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September 30th, 2001 this 13-year-old boy fishing in Galveston Bay, Texas spotted something in the water. A human torso, no head, no arms, and no legs. Later, police were able to locate the arms and legs in two garbage bags. The torso and limbs belong to 71-year-old Morris Black. Officials never imagined that an eccentric cross-dresser by the name of Robert Durst would be behind the murder of his neighbor. In 2001, Durst was residing in Galveston Texas, under a different identity, he posed as a mute woman living in a low income home that cost $300 a month. He pleaded not guilty to the murder of Black. In trial they revealed that Durst dismembered Black remains. In 2003, Durst team laid out an argument of self-defense that the jury agreed with. …show more content…

As they struggle the gun went off hitting Black in the face and instantly killing him. The defense attorney on Durst's team, ventured that Durst was then thrown into a traumatized state similar to an out-of-body experience, caused by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.
"His friend is dead, lying on the floor in a $300 apartment rented by a billionaire in Galveston, Texas, who is dressed as a woman. How much stranger does it get than that, and who will believe him?" said the DA during the opening …show more content…

After Durst was accused of the homicide, he posted a $300,000 bond and afterward fled Texas. Durst was later caught in Pennsylvania while shoplifting a chicken sandwich and a container of gauzes and was taken back to Texas to face trial. On Nov. 11, 2003, following five days of thought, they discovered Durst not blameworthy of homicide. Durst's mouth hung open and his eyes rimmed with tears. He then smiled and grasped his legal advisors.
"It boils down to sensible uncertainty," hearer Joanne Gongora, 49, a nursing educator, said after the decision. "The weight is on the indictment to show how the occasion happened, and we didn't see that. It wasn't demonstrated. He later confessed to bouncing bond, proof altering and taking a firearm crosswise over state lines while on the run regarding Black’s case. He served five and a half months for the weapon charge and was sentenced to parole, for which he was later imprisoned for disregarding. Durst has not been accused of any contribution in the 1982 vanishing of Kathleen

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