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Friday, July 3, 2020
Vol. 69, No. 27
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Durst trial for murder to continue
S A F E LY S M I L I N G
Motion for mistrial in L.A. case denied BY R O S E W E L D ON A Los Angeles judge has denied a bid for a mistrial due to COVID-19 from accused murderer and millionaire Robert Durst in the 2000 slaying of his friend Susan Berman. Prosecutors claim that Durst had killed his first wife, Kathleen McCormack, a native of New PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL GANCI Hyde Park, and recruited Berman to help him create an alibi, The Herricks Public Schools celebrated the class of 2020 on the evening of June 25, when cars assembled, drive-in only to kill Berman in her home movie style, at North Hempstead Beach Park. See story on page 13. to silence her when prosecutors from New York starting looking into McCormack’s 1982 disappearance. Durst, who in the 2015 HBO miniseries “The Jinx” had been recorded saying, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course” on a hot microphone, is continuing to deny the allegasentee ballots for school board budget and school board votes professor of political science at tions, and pleaded not guilty in BY R OB E RT seats and on proposed budgets far surpassed those in previous Hofstra University, said the in2015. PELAEZ from the comfort of home due to years. Every budget increased crease in voter turnout can be The trial, which began in attributed to the convenience earnest on March 2, was susA flood of ballots poured in the coronavirus pandemic, the from the previous year. The school districts included of submitting absentee ballots pended two weeks later due to for school elections on the North vote total was higher than the in these figures are Great Neck, rather than physically going to a coronavirus concerns, and Durst Shore this year – at least com- past two years combined. The elections for school Roslyn, Manhasset, Port Wash- polling location. and his attorneys filed a motion pared with recent years. “People enjoy having the Continued on Page 37 With residents casting ab- boards on June 16 saw incum- ington, Sewanhaka, New Hyde bents retain their seats and Park-Garden City Park, Floral ballot sent to them and being 2020-21 school district bud- Park-Bellerose, East Williston, able to fill it out on their couch gets pass despite complica- Herricks, Mineola and North whenever they want to and mail Shore. The figures were provid- it back in,” Burnett said in a tions from the pandemic. phone interview. “We are a naIn virtually every school ed by the school districts. Craig Burnett, an associate district on the North Shore, Continued on Page 45
Sharp rise in school vote turnout
Herricks district sees more ballots returned this year than past three combined
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