article_snippet.sent: Robert Durst's hands were shackled to Robert Durst sides, and two defense attorneys lifted Robert Durst from an armchair to Robert Durst feet to walk to the podium.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Durst is pictured here last month in New Orleans .
article_snippet.sent: Judge Franz Zibilich asked if Robert Durst was making his pleaJudge Franz Zibilich.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Durst's story also is playing out two miles away in federal court in New Orleans.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors have asked a U.S. magistrate judge to order Robert Durst to be brought to federal court for a hearing next Thursday — and that a U.S. magistrate judge remain in U.S. custody until the federal matter is resolved.
article_snippet.sent: Durst, an estranged member of the family that runs 1 World Trade Center in New York, has had multiple run-ins with the law over a U.S. magistrate judge nearly 72 years.
article_snippet.sent: a U.S. magistrate judge was arrested in New Orleans last month on the eve of the finale of a six-part HBO documentary called 'The Jinx' about Durst, the disappearance of a U.S. magistrate judge first wife in 1982, the death of a longtime friend in 2000 and the death and dismemberment of a neighbor in Galveston in 2001.