{"id":251295,"date":"2021-05-17T04:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/robert-durst-murder-trial-set-to-resume-in-la-on-monday\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T04:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:40:53","slug":"robert-durst-murder-trial-set-to-resume-in-la-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/robert-durst-murder-trial-set-to-resume-in-la-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"#Robert Durst murder trial set to resume in LA on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Robert Durst murder trial set to resume in LA on Monday<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Jurors in the murder trial of real-estate scion Robert Durst will return to a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday for the first time in more than a year.<\/p>\n

The high-profile case was halted for 14 months \u2014 an unprecedented amount of time \u2014 because of the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n

Now, Judge Mark Windham plans to question the panel of 23 jurors, including 11 alternates, in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday about whether they can continue with the case.<\/p>\n

Durst, 78, is accused of shooting longtime pal\u00a0Susan Berman\u00a0in the back of the head at her Beverly Hills home in 2000. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

The jury \u2014 winnowed from over 400 people \u2014 heard four days of opening statements and two days of testimony before being sent home on March 12 of last year, when the pandemic closed courthouses and sparked a state-wide stay-at-home order.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors argued that Durst\u00a0executed Berman\u00a0to stop her from telling authorities that she helped him cover up the killing of his first wife Kathie Durst, who disapp<\/a>eared in Westchester in 1982. <\/p>\n

Although her body was never found, Durst, who is worth an estimated $100 million, has long been suspected of killing Kathie.<\/p>\n

When New York prosecutors reopened the case in 2000, Berman \u2014 a Las Vegas mobster\u2019s daughter who knew Durst since college \u2014 warned him she was going to tell them what she knew. She was dead two months later.<\/p>\n

Nearly a year after Berman was killed, Durst fatally shot and dismembered his neighbor\u00a0Morris Black in Galveston, Texas, to prevent him from disclosing his whereabouts to investigators. <\/p>\n

A jury acquitted Durst of murder after he testified that he\u2019d acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles prosecutors said they would prove that Durst committed all three slayings, which are intrinsically connected.<\/p>\n

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A photo of Susan Berman, who Robert Durst is accused of murdering, shown at Durst\u2019s trial on March 4, 2020.<\/figcaption>
Etienne Laurent\/EPA via AP, Pool<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During opening statements, defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin said that Durst didn\u2019t kill Berman and doesn\u2019t know who did.\u00a0But he said his client found her body, panicked and bolted.<\/p>\n

The defense has repeatedly \u2014 and unsuccessfully \u2014 sought a mistrial, arguing that the yearlong delay harmed their client\u2019s chance of a fair trial.<\/p>\n

They submitted a list of proposed questions for Windham to ask the returning jurors, including whether they read or heard about the case during their break and can remain impartial.<\/p>\n

The attorneys also want to know if COVID-19 altered the lives of the jurors in a way that prevents them from serving another four to five months.<\/p>\n

The defense recently submitted a motion asking the judge to push off the trial further, arguing that Durst is suffering from a slew of health issues, including cancer.<\/p>\n

The eccentric millionaire has been jailed since his 2015 arrest \u2014 which was spurred by admissions he made in the\u00a0HBO documentary\u00a0\u201cThe Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.\u201d<\/p>\n

His lawyers want him to be released on bail into an outside medical facility.<\/p>\n

Durst is estranged from his family, who own the Durst Organization, a Manhattan real-estate company.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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