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Fascinating individual Durst. The Jinx series was riveting viewing. Will try and get hold of the Gosling movie - funny how they have changed the names in the movie to protect the guilty. I guess with legal proceedings probably pending at the time they had no choice.
With jury selection set to begin in Los Angeles on Wednesday (2/19/20), the trial is expected to last up to five months, pitting a lineup of elite Los Angeles County prosecutors against the high-end Houston legal team that helped Durst beat a murder charge in Texas in 2003.
Whether Durst testifies, the heart of the trial will center on his words outside court, which have strayed far beyond what any defense attorney would allow.
Against his lawyers’ advice, Durst gave some 20 hours of interviews for the HBO documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.” He was arrested on March 14, 2015, at a hotel in New Orleans, where he agreed to speak to Lewin and ultimately made such a compromising statement that legal experts can’t wait to see how the defense team tries to get past them.
But not because they assume it will be impossible: Durst famously told a jury how he beheaded and sawed up the body of his neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, while insisting he had not murdered him — and was acquitted.
There is nothing interesting about this man's flagrant disability to use his money to thwart his criminal charges. He is sick in behavior and mindset. Yet he will again gloat when his jury releases him of any wrong doing.
Kills his best friend...kills his wife. Kills the neighbor. Doesn't take a legal system to know those facts. Tired of our justice system.
Police arrived and entered the shabby brown-shingled bungalow to find the writer Susan Berman dead on the hardwood floor, a pool of blood around her head. Lewin showed jurors photos of the scene, noting there was no apparent robbery or burglary. The windows were locked and unbroken. The doors showed no sign of forced entry. Nothing was removed or out of place. Even Berman’s purse, with her wallet inside, was tucked on the kitchen counter.
“The evidence is going to show, without question, that Susan knew her killer,” Lewin said. Berman, the daughter of mobster David Berman, was a paranoid woman not given to welcoming strangers. “She let her killer into the house, and she turned her back to him.”
Beran was killed with a gunshot to the head.
“Thankfully, she didn’t see it coming,” Lewin said.
Berman was Durst’s close friend and confidant dating back to their days together at UCLA, and nearly 20 years after her body was found, Durst is on trial for her killing.
The murder trial of eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst will resume next month after more than a yearlong hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Superior Court Judge Mark Windham on Monday denied a renewed motion by Durst’s lawyers for a mistrial because of the “extreme delay” and ongoing concerns of coronavirus variants that could pose a health threat to jurors and trial participants.
Jurors will be called back to court in Inglewood on May 17 for informal questioning. A new round of opening statements will tentatively be held a day or two later.
A panel of 23 jurors, including 11 alternates, had heard six days of testimony in the lengthy case before it was postponed March 12, 2020...
There is no way I could sit there as a jurist and say....He is innocent from the moment he sits in that chair til I ,as jurist, suddenly have a revelation that maybe just maybe he is guilty! My mind doesn't see a charged person as completely and utterly pure and innocent. Why even have a trial at ALL if a person is to be labeled "innocent" . The middle ground would say, they are less then innocent.
There is no way I could sit there as a jurist and say....He is innocent from the moment he sits in that chair til I ,as jurist, suddenly have a revelation that maybe just maybe he is guilty! My mind doesn't see a charged person as completely and utterly pure and innocent. Why even have a trial at ALL if a person is to be labeled "innocent" . The middle ground would say, they are less then innocent.
I'm 99% sure he bribed the judge, jury, or both which is why double jeopardy is out the window.
Lol, Durst now feels that admitting he committed murder on HBO was a bad idea? You don’t say.
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