INGLEWOOD, Calif. (CNS)—A Los Angeles judge April 12 denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case of Robert Durst, a New York real estate scion charged with murder for a longtime friend’s killing in Benedict Canyon just before Christmas Eve 2000, ruling that evidence the defense sought to exclude can be admitted. Durst’s defense team argued that the case against their client is circumstantial and that evidence that he dismembered the body of his Texas neighbor—in a separate case in which he was acquitted—would inflame the jury and should not be allowed at trial. “There’s no similarities between what happened in Galveston and what happened with Ms. Berman,” defense attorney David Chesnoff told the court. “To suggest that the graphic dismemberment photos from Galveston are in any way connected to the homicide that Mr. Durst is on trial for … borders on absurd … and he was acquitted.” …