ROBERT DURST -- JINXED?

[HairOfTheDog]

He appears to have a great deal of difficulty in relating to people and exhibits zero empathy.

I think Durst may have a personality or mental disorder. But, I also think he may just be a cunning actor.

If I didn't know he killed and dismembered a man and was suspected in two other deaths, I'd probably find him oddly likable from a distance.

If he does have a legitimate disorder (or a fake doctor-stamped one), I wonder if his attorney will use that as his defense. Personally, I don't think it would be a successful strategy because mental impairment requires the defense to prove that the accused didn't know what he was doing was wrong. If Durst killed Susan Berman, he premeditated it and covered his tracks coming and going. He lied about it for years. He outright denied doing it. He fled the scene. <-- He knew it was wrong; hard to get around that.

We know Durst killed and dismembered Morris Black and did all the same things (minus premeditation and plus dismemberment), but he successfully used a self-defense ploy, not an impairment defense. I don't think Durst has a shot in hell of getting off using self-defense in the murder of Susan Berman (but, if anybody could pull if off again, it would be his lawyer Dick DeGuerin).

Anyway, when Durst was acquitted of the murder of Morris Black, he was convicted of evidence tampering and bond jumping felonies. He spent a couple of years in a Texas jail.

As a convicted felon, he's therefore prevented from owning a weapon. Today he was charged in a New Orleans court for illegal possession of a firearm and drugs. He had a .38 caliber and some marijuana in his room when he was arrested on an out of state warrant for the murder of Susan Berman Saturday night.


^71-year-old Bobby doesn't look too broken up to be going before a New Orleans judge today. He will be extradited to Los Angeles when New Orleans is finished with him.

I don't know what makes Durst do what he does, but I do believe watching his mother jump from the roof to her death when he 7 must have helped shape who he became. And still, he knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong, and IMO he probably liked doing it.