Douglas Durst, from Katonah, showed up at the California courthouse with his own private security detail because he said he was so afraid of Durst.
Robert Durst, 78, is on trial for the 2000 murder of his longtime friend Susan Berman.
Prosecutors claim Durst killed Berman because he feared she would reveal what she knew about the disappearance of Durst's first wife, Kathie, who vanished nearly 40 years ago from South Salem.