By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A Manhattan judge denied a mother charged with killing her autistic son a conditional release on bail Friday, citing her $40 million net worth, traveling habits and evidence against her in the case.
"The risk of the defendant's flight is extremely high," wrote Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Charles Solomon in his decision to deny Gigi Jordan, 49, a conditional release to her Upper West Side brownstone.
"[Jordan] is charged with committing one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, the murder of her own child, an eight-year-old boy who was autistic and apparently incapable of speaking," he continued.
The judge said he believed "evidence of guilt is indeed overwhelming" against Jordan.
Jordan, who's accused of killing her son, Jude Mirra, with a fatal pill overdose at the Peninsula Hotel, has been held at the Elmhurst Hospital psychiatric ward following her arrest in February. Since then, her lawyer has been trying to get the multimillionaire released on bail.
The lawyer, Gerry Shargel, first asked for his client to be released on $5 million bail to voluntarily commit herself at a St. Vincent's Hospital psychiatric facility, an option now off the table with the hospital's pending closure.
He asked she be allowed to live in her West 77th Street apartment while wearing an ankle bracelet tracking device and guarded by a private security detail. Her assets would also be frozen, preventing her from leaving, Shargel suggested in his application.
Prosecutors said Jordan has manipulated paid employees in the past, and has the means to flee New York if she does not remain in Department of Corrections custody.
They said psychiatric patients who are not wealthy like Jordan are routinely treated by the Corrections department.
