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Robert Durst murder trial to resume after COVID delay Brian Melley LOS ANGELES – The murder trial of eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst will resume May 17 after more than a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, a judge said Monday. Judge Mark Windham denied a renewed motion by Durst’s lawyers for a mistrial due to the “extreme delay” and ongoing concerns of mutations of COVID-19 that could pose a health threat to jurors and trial participants. A panel of 23 jurors, including 11 alternates, had heard six days of testimony in the lengthy case before it was postp...

The murder trial of Robert Durst is set to resume in L.A. County in Inglewood next month following a yearlong postponement precipitated by the pandemic.

LOS ANGELES - The murder trial of eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst will resume next month after more than a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, a judge said Monday.

The murder trial of eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst will resume next month after more than a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, a judge said Monday. Judge Mark Windham denied a renewed motion by Durst's lawyers for a mistrial due to the “extreme delay” and ongoing concerns of mutations of…

Durst's defense team argued that the case against their client is circumstantial and that evidence that he dismembered the body of his Texas neighbor -- in a separate case in which he was acquitted -- would inflame the jury and should not be allowed at trial.