WHO GETS LUSTER'S BAIL NOW? BOUNTY HUNTER, VICTIM, AGENCIES LAY CLAIM.Byline: Grace Lee Staff Writer VENTURA - Professional bounty hunter Name for a category of persons who are offered a promised gratuity in return for "hunting" down and capturing or killing a designated target, usually a person or animal. Duane ``Dog'' Chapman and a victim of convicted rapist rap·ist n. One who commits rape. Noun 1. rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse raper aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks Andrew Luster Andrew Stuart Luster (b. December 15, 1963) is the great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor, Sr. and an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was convicted of a series of rapes in 2003. For much of his life, he was supported by a $3. were among five parties who laid claim Monday to the $1 million cash bail forfeited by the Max Factor heir. In a courtroom packed with television crews and reporters, Ventura Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie said he needed more time to determine whether Luster's mother, Elizabeth Luster, had posted the entire amount and which parties had claim to it. ``It looks like (Elizabeth Luster) posted the money. She might be the one with standing,'' Brodie said of the initial paperwork. But the matter was put into question by court documents that indicated she had paid only $435,000 of the total. The claimants are scheduled to return to court Aug. 5. Luster is now serving a 124-year sentence in a California prison after being tracked down and captured by Chapman last month in Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta (pwār`tō väyär`tä), city (1990 pop. 93,503), Jalisco state, W Mexico. Located on the expansive Bahía de Banderas [Bay of Flags], Puerto Vallarta has been used since the 16th cent. , Mexico. Under house arrest during his trial, he jumped bail and fled in January and was convicted in absentia in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused of drugging, raping and videotaping three women in his Mussel mussel, edible freshwater or marine bivalve mollusk. Mussels are able to move slowly by means of the muscular foot. They feed and breathe by filtering water through extensible tubes called siphons; a large mussel filters 10 gal (38 liters) of water per day. Shoals home. Chapman is only one in a line of claimants to the bail that also includes Elizabeth Luster; one of his victims, identified only as Shawna Doe, who has filed a civil suit against him; and the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. and District Attorney's Office. Chapman, who calls himself ``the greatest bounty hunter in the world,'' is seeking $320,000 in compensation and expenses. ``We're 98 percent confident'' about receiving the bail, Chapman said outside of court. Otherwise, the judge ``would've dropped it then and said see ya.'' The colorful bounty hunter failed to appear Monday in a Mexican court on charges that he illegally detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: Luster in Puerta Vallarta. He was given until today to explain his absence before the court launched procedures to forfeit his $1,430 bail. Roger Diamond, Luster's lawyer, said his client would not fight the efforts by the district attorney and Sheriff's Department to recover $115,000 they spent on searching for and apprehending the fugitive. Luster did not want the cost of his search to be used against him when he asked the state Supreme Court for the right to appeal his trial, Diamond said. But Brodie questioned whether the county agencies deserve any of the money. ``Did those expenditures result in bringing Mr. Luster into custody?'' he asked, pointing out that it was Chapman and his partners who brought the 39-year-old convicted date rapist to the attention of Mexican authorities. Grace Lee, (805) 662-6757 grace.lee(at)dailynews.com |
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