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...Researchers are linking Viagra to blindness. So now, aging baby boomers are ending their adulthood asking the same question they did when they began it: 'Can I do it just till I need glasses?'" --WILL DURST, stand-up comic and TV and radio commentator
...effect has been similarly potent. Last November prosecutors in Galveston, Texas, despite a plethora of nonforensic evidence, couldn't convince a jury that Robert Durst had murdered Morris Black, even though Durst admitted inadvertently killing him, because Black's head couldn't be found. The head, the defense argued, contained key evidence that Durst had acted in self-defense. "The CSI effect is real, and it's profound," says jury consultant Robert Hirschhorn, who also says he purposely selected jurors familiar with CSI and forensics-type shows for the Durst trial...
From Bob Dylan, who remarked that “the kid has heart” after seeing a performance of “Polly,” all the way to P. Diddy and Fred Durst, musicians, journalists and fans have almost unanimously praised Cobain for the quality of his work and the sincerity of his character. It is also safe to say that nearly all contemporary rock musicians, including bands like Weezer, the Strokes and the Vines, have expressed some debt of gratitude to Cobain and his work...
...Durst acquitted? There were no witnesses to the killing. Black's head could have proved how he was shot, but it was missing. Jurors say the defense stuck to its story that Durst acted in self-defense, while prosecutors gave several possible scenarios. The jury might have convicted him of manslaughter, but that wasn't presented as an option. Durst seems to have expected a guilty verdict. He reportedly commissioned an $8,000 study to find the most comfortable prison in Texas...
...Durst now sits in a Texas jail. Galveston district attorney Kurt Sistrunk told TIME he plans to pursue a charge of bail jumping against Durst, for which he could receive a prison term of up to 10 years. And Durst could soon be back in court to face a wrongful-death civil suit brought by Black's sister Gladys Saslaw, which would require a lighter burden of proof than the one he faced for Black's murder. For that, he may have to mount another extraordinary performance. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles