$1 mil bond in NOLA slaying

An Orleans Parish judge has set a $1 million bond to keep David Bonds in jail awaiting trial on 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 a cool 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 morning, according to the sheriff's online inmate database.

At the arraignment June 25, Bonds entered a plea of innocence to the charge of attempted murder for a shooting that took place 24 days after an Orleans Parish jury freed Bonds from four indictments related to deadly 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.

Police said Bonds got into an argument with another man at around 5 a.m. at the corner of Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue and that Bonds shot the man in the torso.

Bonds was acquitted April 10 of murdering Shavers, the Hot 8 Brass Band drummer and high school band teacher, after an emotional trial during which prosecutors were forced to rely on eyewitness testimony from three teenage girls.

Bonds turned 19 years old three days after the Canal Street shooting. He was back in police custody May 16 after police located him in Thibodaux.

Parker noted the objection to the $1 million bond by public defender William Boggs, who successfully defended Bonds, an admitted drug dealer who was in the foster care system after Hurricane Katrina.

Assistant District Attorney Caren Cambre is again prosecuting Bonds, as she did in the Shavers' murder case.

Bonds is due back in court later this month for a standard pre-trial hearing. No trial date has been set.

During his pre-trial wait in Orleans Parish Prison to stand trial for the December 2006 second-degree murder of Shavers, 25, and attempted murder of Shavers' wife, stepson and teenage friend, Bonds was held on $2.5 million bond.

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Comment by cye young on July 2, 2008 at 1:02pm: is it me or does he look like radio

Comment by bonny mak on July 2, 2008 at 2:06pm: u would think he would stop killing ppl after the first time

Comment by IM WAT U CALL CHANGE on July 2, 2008 at 2:41pm: DIS DUDE KRAZY

Comment by MUNCHY on July 2, 2008 at 7:50pm: niggas in the n.o. aint got shit to live for when they gotta worry bout eating every night so i dont think he really cares

Comment by JIMMIE DECUIR on July 3, 2008 at 12:58am: HEY WHAT CAN I SAY NIGGAZZ IS HUNGRY DOWN HERE!!!

Comment by Ms. B.A.D. on July 3, 2008 at 10:36am: that ain't nothing new about the n.o. that's all the time

Comment by Stikk-Mann on July 3, 2008 at 11:19am: only reason dey did dat- it started on canal st.- SHOUT OUT 2 DA NOLA-

Comment by JUAN on July 5, 2008 at 7:07pm: My man is a cannon that they don't want loose in the N.O.

Comment by G.M.S. on July 6, 2008 at 3:44am: dats crazy a public defender got him off of a 4 way murder now he back....i aint familiar with da N.O. but isnt canal st. in da city where mardi gras be? or am i thinkin of canal st in new york where da bootlegg shit be its dat barney cant evwen think