TX - Trial of Robert Durst in the murder of Morris Black

[i.b.nora]

Durst Set for California Murder Trial After Sentencing
Bloomberg News
Della Hasselle Edvard Pettersson
April 27, 2016 — 7:33 AM PDT Updated on April 27, 2016 — 9:36 AM PDT

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ornia-murder-trial-after-louisiana-sentencing

“With the plea agreement, Durst avoided financial crimes charges in New York, firearms charges in Texas. A Louisiana district attorney agreed to forgo prosecuting Durst on a local gun charge. Durst ended up with a longer term than the 12 to 18 months suggested by federal sentencing guidelines.

"We cleared the decks, at a cost,” said Durst’s lawyer Dick DeGuerin. He added it means Durst can get to California "and that’s what this is all about."

Durst could be in California “within a couple of weeks, if not sooner,” prosecutor Michael McMahon said. “He’ll be out of here pretty expeditiously.”

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has to formally accept the judge’s recommendation for Durst to go to California.”​

 

[Indy Anna]

Durst, 73, was due to be transferred by Aug. 18 to a federal prison in Southern California after he agreed to plead guilty to a weapons charge in New Orleans.

But Durst has remained in a Louisiana jail. His legal team learned Friday that he was to be relocated to a federal prison with a specialized medical facility in Terre Haute, Ind.

Read more at ... http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-prison-transfer-20160918-snap-story.html


Real estate heir Robert Durst has been assigned to an Indiana prison which has a medical unit, rather than the California prison requested ...

Read more at ... http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/09/18/lawyer-robert-durst-assigned-prison-indiana/90657342/

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national...gned-to-Medical-Prison-Indiana-393915221.html


DeGuerin said the assignment may have been made because the Terre Haute prison has one of two "level 3" medical facilities in the federal system.

[...]

He said Durst had spinal fusion surgery in mid-July

"They figure he needs a higher level of medical care than we think he needs," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/19/robert-dursts-lawyer-indiana-prison-doesnt-make-sense.html

 

[meanmaryjean]

http://www.tmz.com/2016/11/04/robert-durst-murder-charge-jail-extradited-jinx/

Headed to LA to face charges

 

[i.b.nora]

From the TMZ article:

“We've learned Durst will plead not guilty to the charge when he is arraigned in L.A. Superior Court on Monday.

He has a powerful, multi-state legal team, which includes Dick DeGuerin, Chip Lewis, David Chesnoff and Don Re ... all of whom have won big murder cases.”​

 

[yllek]

After he was arrested in March 2015, Durst told prosecutors he was high on meth the whole time he was filming The Jinx -- according to a piece in the LA Times today.

Durst is still awaiting trial in the death of Susan Berman.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-robert-durst-20161216-story.html

 

[Hatfield]

msboo, if you hear any more specific details about Durst, please post them here. I'd be very interested to hear an update! Thanks in advance

It seems like some major court hearing today if I am reading this right.

I think it is an important hearing to see whether there will be a new murder trial.

"Prosecutors could move closer to bringing him to trial if they can show probable cause at a hearing that begins Monday that Durst killed Susan Berman in order to silence her from revealing what she knew about the death of the multimillionaire’s first wife."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...faces-hearing-on-murder-charges-idUSKBN1HN186

 

[bronk4]

the Susan Berman is a long shot case........from what I understand there is not much evidence at all....I don't see how he can even be charged

 

[JerseyGirl]

Robert Durst Murder Trial Seeks Ryan Gosling Movie Screening To Convict Heir

 

[dotr]

Robert Durst Murder Trial Seeks Ryan Gosling Movie Screening To Convict Heir

"Ryan Gosling is attracting a lot of awards-season attention right now for his role as Neil Armstrong in First Man, but for the Los Angeles County District Attorney, today the moonshot is all about his thinly veiled portrayal of Robert Durst in 2010’s All Good Things. Seriously."
“When Defendant was asked on camera about his feelings about a film which had alleged that he had murdered three people and a dog, he responded, not with denials, but by stating, ‘I felt the movie was very, very, very close in much of the ways about what, pretty much, happened.'”

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Robert Durst: Who is the eccentric millionaire charged with murder?

 

[JerseyGirl]

Real Estate Scion Robert Durst Dies at 78 While Awaiting Trial for Wife's Murder

 

[Betty P]

Real Estate Scion Robert Durst Dies at 78 While Awaiting Trial for Wife's Murder

I doubt he'll be missed. It's a shame it took so long to bring him to justice, but kudos to the investigators and prosecutors who took him on. If only they had been able to stop him after his first murder.

He'll go down in history as one of the first killers to casually admit his guilt in an HBO documentary.

Robert Durst of HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ Says He ‘Killed Them All’ (Published 2015)

"On Sunday night, in the final moments of the final episode of a six-part HBO documentary about him, “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” Mr. Durst seemed to veer toward a confession that could lift the shroud of mystery that surrounds the deaths of three people over the course of three decades.

“What the hell did I do?” Mr. Durst whispers to himself in an unguarded moment caught on a microphone he wore during filming. “Killed them all, of course.”

BBM

I hope Kathleen's family and friends can find some measure of peace now that he's gone. She seemed like such a kind, brilliant woman.

At least, we may learn more about his wife's death.
From the link above

Durst was indicted last November in New York with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982. The Westchester County District Attorney's Office said it would hold a news conference in "the coming days" to release more information about the case against Durst, given his death.