03-22-2015, 12:51 PM
THE DEFENSE OF ROBERT DURST; HERE WE GO AGAIN...
When Durst fled New York City back in 2001, disguised as a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner, he ended up hiding out in a shit hole in Galveston, Texas. A couple of months later, he killed and dismembered his Galveston neighbor Morris Black.
During his trial, Durst claimed self-defense and vilified the victim; the Defense team used the "he had it coming defense".
In addition, Durst and his attorneys blamed Jeanine Pirro, the NYC District Attorney who'd just re-opened the investigation into the disappearance of Kathie Durst.
![[Image: pirro.jpg]](http://www.westernfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/pirro.jpg)
^ Jeanine Pirro, according to Robert Durst and team, was an ambitious woman (the horror) and was out to get Robert Durst in order to further her own career. Essentially, the Defense claimed, if she hadn't re-opened the missing person case which pushed Durst into running from New York City, Durst wouldn't have been in Galveston and Morris Black wouldn't be dead.
As crazy as it sounds, the jury bought it and felt sympathy for Durst, as if he was the victim (jurors were interviewed in the HBO series and said as much).
![[Image: 051020_dick_deguerin_vsm.grid-4x2.jpg]](http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051020/051020_dick_deguerin_vsm.grid-4x2.jpg)
^ Dick DeGuerin is Durst's criminal defense attorney -- he's one of the best attorneys in the country, hands down. Since Durst's arrest last weekend for the murder of Susan Berman, DeGuerin has been busy laying the foundation for Durst's defense in the media.
This time out, DeGuerin contends that Durst is the victim of filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (even though Durst, against DeGeurin's advice, asked Jarecki to make the documentary, not the other way around). DeGuerin also claims that Durst has mild Asperger's and that there was a conspiracy between HBO, Jarecki and LAPD to set up Robert Durst.
DeGuerin is dismissing all the allegations against Durst as false, saying Robert Durst is an easy target. "There's no evidence. There's no linkage. Maybe the next thing we'll hear is he's responsible for the death of Jimmy Hoffa," DeGuerin said.
Hey, Dick, maybe the fact that your client's wife (declared "dead" years ago), your client's best friend, and your client's neighbor have all been murdered makes him a legitimate target of suspicion. Add to that the fact that your client admits on film to lying and not telling the whole truth in regards to his involvement in those cases, the incriminating hand-writing evidence against your client, and your client's confession-like utterance and it's kinda hard to sell the "witch hunt!!" jive this time around (I HOPE).
Durst is still in custody on weapons and gun charges in Louisiana and receiving some kind of medical treatment there. That gives LAPD time to build their case against Durst for the murder of Susan Berman before Durst is extradited to California. That rubs DeGuerin the wrong way. That's just too bad.
![[Image: Debrah_Lee_Charatan.jpg]](http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Debrah_Lee_Charatan.jpg)
^Deborah Lee Charatan is Durst's very weird wife. It's being reported that authorities are trying to get Charatan — who married the billionaire murder defendant less than two weeks before Berman’s execution-style slaying — to take a deal and testify against her husband in exchange for immunity. Authorities believe that she was helping him with a plan to flee to Cuba when he was arrested in New Orleans. If charged and convicted with "aiding and abetting a plot to flee prosecution", she could spend five years in jail.
When Durst fled New York City back in 2001, disguised as a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner, he ended up hiding out in a shit hole in Galveston, Texas. A couple of months later, he killed and dismembered his Galveston neighbor Morris Black.
During his trial, Durst claimed self-defense and vilified the victim; the Defense team used the "he had it coming defense".
In addition, Durst and his attorneys blamed Jeanine Pirro, the NYC District Attorney who'd just re-opened the investigation into the disappearance of Kathie Durst.
^ Jeanine Pirro, according to Robert Durst and team, was an ambitious woman (the horror) and was out to get Robert Durst in order to further her own career. Essentially, the Defense claimed, if she hadn't re-opened the missing person case which pushed Durst into running from New York City, Durst wouldn't have been in Galveston and Morris Black wouldn't be dead.
As crazy as it sounds, the jury bought it and felt sympathy for Durst, as if he was the victim (jurors were interviewed in the HBO series and said as much).
^ Dick DeGuerin is Durst's criminal defense attorney -- he's one of the best attorneys in the country, hands down. Since Durst's arrest last weekend for the murder of Susan Berman, DeGuerin has been busy laying the foundation for Durst's defense in the media.
This time out, DeGuerin contends that Durst is the victim of filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (even though Durst, against DeGeurin's advice, asked Jarecki to make the documentary, not the other way around). DeGuerin also claims that Durst has mild Asperger's and that there was a conspiracy between HBO, Jarecki and LAPD to set up Robert Durst.
DeGuerin is dismissing all the allegations against Durst as false, saying Robert Durst is an easy target. "There's no evidence. There's no linkage. Maybe the next thing we'll hear is he's responsible for the death of Jimmy Hoffa," DeGuerin said.
Hey, Dick, maybe the fact that your client's wife (declared "dead" years ago), your client's best friend, and your client's neighbor have all been murdered makes him a legitimate target of suspicion. Add to that the fact that your client admits on film to lying and not telling the whole truth in regards to his involvement in those cases, the incriminating hand-writing evidence against your client, and your client's confession-like utterance and it's kinda hard to sell the "witch hunt!!" jive this time around (I HOPE).
Durst is still in custody on weapons and gun charges in Louisiana and receiving some kind of medical treatment there. That gives LAPD time to build their case against Durst for the murder of Susan Berman before Durst is extradited to California. That rubs DeGuerin the wrong way. That's just too bad.
^Deborah Lee Charatan is Durst's very weird wife. It's being reported that authorities are trying to get Charatan — who married the billionaire murder defendant less than two weeks before Berman’s execution-style slaying — to take a deal and testify against her husband in exchange for immunity. Authorities believe that she was helping him with a plan to flee to Cuba when he was arrested in New Orleans. If charged and convicted with "aiding and abetting a plot to flee prosecution", she could spend five years in jail.