![]() “No matter how bad it was, no matter how much he was impeached, he loved it up there.” He called Durst “shameless in his perjury” and that his time on the witness stand was “very helpful to us and very harmful to his case.”ĭamaging as his testimony was to himself, Durst clearly relished the spotlight, Lewin said. Lewin said jurors told him they did not find Durst’s testimony credible. Durst testified in the Galveston trial that Black was shot in a struggle over a gun, after which he dismembered his neighbor’s body in a panic.Īt the Los Angeles trial, prosecutors argued that Durst, who lived in Galveston disguised as a mute woman, killed Black because he had learned Durst’s true identity, threatening his continued freedom. Outside the courtroom Friday, Lewin said jurors told him they believed that prosecutors had proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Durst had not only murdered Berman but also killed his wife and murdered Black.īlack was Durst's neighbor in Galveston, where Durst had fled after learning authorities had revived the investigation into his wife’s disappearance. His co-counsel David Chesnoff said he believes there was "substantial reasonable doubt" in the case. ![]() (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)Īttorney Dick DeGuerin - who in 2003 won Durst an acquittal on murder charges in Texas, even after his client admitted to dismembering the corpse of his neighbor Morris Black - said the real estate heir's legal battle will continue on appeal. ![]() Windham thanks the jury for their service after they found New York real estate heir Robert Durst guilty.
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