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The judge in Robert Durst's murder trial said the New York real estate scion is being treated Thursday in a jail hospital, prompting jurors to be sent home for...

The judge in Robert Durst's murder trial said the New York real estate scion is being treated Thursday in a jail hospital, prompting jurors to be sent home for...

Robert Durst was hospitalized unexpectedly Thursday after falling out of his chair for unknown reasons while in jail custody amid his Los Angeles murder trial.

Whatever jurors may have forgotten about Durst -- from the cloud of suspicion that has dogged him for decades to his claims of being trailed by bad luck -- they will be reminded in a new round of opening arguments. Durst, 78, an heir to a New York commercial real estate empire, is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of his best friend, Susan Berman. She was shot in the back of the head at her Los Angeles home in December 2000. Durst has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer said Durst didn...

Trial of Robert Durst, subject of the crime documentary ‘The Jinx,’ restarts after pause for coronavirus The trial of millionaire Robert Durst, the subject of the HBO crime documentary “The Jinx,” restarted Tuesday in Los Angeles after a break of more than a year because of Covid-19. The day began with a juror being dismissed and ended with the prosecution finishing its opening statement. Court is scheduled to resume Wednesday at 9 a.m. PT with an opening statement from Durst’s defens...

In court for the first time since the pandemic began and facing charges of murdering his friend Susan Berman, Robert Durst — and jurors — watched his life play out in clips. FILE – In this March 5, 2020, file photo real estate heir Robert Durst, middle, sits with his defense attorneys, David Chesnoff, left, and Dick DeGuerin during his murder trial at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles. (Robyn Beck/Pool Photo via AP, File) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Jurors in a Los Angeles County cour...

Print this article A juror in the murder trial of multimillionaire Robert Durst was removed because she read about the case, a violation of the courts order, during a long hiatus. Judge Mark Windham announced he was removing the juror after she admitted to reading about the defense attorneys requests for a mistrial, according to the The judge said the juror "took umbrage" that defense attorneys sought a mistrial because they felt jurors might have forgotten what they heard 14 months ago when ...

Durst's lead attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told the panel in his opening statement last year that his client found the body of his close friend, Susan Berman, after she had already been killed in December 2000 at her home in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the murder trial of real estate heir Robert Durst reprised their opening statements to jurors Tuesday.

Durst jurors to get refresher in deaths tied to millionaire BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 17 1of17FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo, real estate heir Robert Durst looks over during his murder trial in Los Angeles. Fourteen months after the murder trial of New York real estate heir Durst was put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, jurors are returning to court to see if they can finish the assignment they were given. A Los Angeles judge will qu...