![]() ![]() But with Tuesday’s admission, whether or not he was able to make that trip will no longer be a key question for jurors to consider. Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, was Durst’s longtime confidante who told friends she provided a phony alibi for him after his wife vanished. Deputy District Attorney John Lewin also spent much of his lengthy opening statements reviewing a complicated timeline to show jurors how Durst was able to secretly travel from Northern California to Berman’s Beverly Hills home.ĭurst for years denied being in Los Angeles when Berman was killed in December 2000. Susan was the daughter of Davie Berman, a Jewish-American organized crime figure who operated for notorious gangster Meyer Lanksy and the Genovese crime family in Minneapolis and Las Vegas. Over the past few days, prosecutors have focused heavily on evidence that Durst had written the “cadaver note” - which, again, he’d already admitted to. That’s not a viable argument in this murder trial, however, since Berman was shot at close range, execution style, in the back of her head. Prosecutors argued that Durst had shot Berman at point-blank range in her home to prevent her from. In that case - the first time DeGuerin represented him - Durst said he had acted in self-defense. A Los Angeles jury convicted Durst, 78, of first-degree murder last month for the 2000 killing. ![]() He took the stand on his previous murder trial, for the 2001 killing of his neighbor Morris Black, and the jury found him not guilty. Jurors at Robert Durst’s murder trial heard blockbuster testimony Wednesday from a woman who said victim Susan Berman once confessed to her she helped Durst with his alibi after his first wife. History has shown him to be a persuasive witness. ![]()
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