$1 million bond for suspect acquitted in Dinerral Shavers murder
$1 million bond set in nonfatal shooting
Defendant acquitted of killing musician
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
By Gwen Filosa
The Times-Picayune
An Orleans Parish judge has set bail at $1 million to keep David Bonds in jail awaiting trial on a count of attempted murder, two months after a jury acquitted the 19-year-old of murdering musician Dinerral Shavers.
Judge Julian Parker last week raised the magistrate court’s original $750,000 bond to $1 million — which in Orleans is an enormous sum for a defendant facing a charge not involving a homicide.
Bonds remained in jail as of Tuesday, according to the sheriff’s online inmate database. At the arraignment June 25, Bonds entered a plea of innocence to the count of attempted murder for a shooting that took place 24 days after an Orleans Parish jury freed Bonds from four indictments related to gunplay that ended Shavers’ life.
Bonds is again on his way to trial at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, accused of shooting a 25-year-old man in the 700 block of Canal Street on May 4.
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