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scion of a wealthy New York real estate family, Durst, 78, is
charged with murdering his friend Susan Berman in 2000 because
of what she might have known about the disappearance of his wife
Kathleen two decades earlier.
Prosecutors say that during filming of the documentary "The
Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst", he unwittingly
confessed to three murders: of his wife, Berman and a neighbor
in Galveston, Texas, Morris Black.
Durst was arrested over Berman's murder the day before the final
episode was broadcast in March 2015. He had already been
acquitted of Black's murder in a previous trial, and has never
been charged over the disappearance of his wife.
He has pleaded not guilty in the Berman case, and his lawyers
have called the documentary heavily edited and "deviously
misleading".
The trial is set to resume next week following a yearlong break
due to COVID-19.
The motion filed by the defense sought both a postponement of
the trial and release on bail for Durst, CNN reported. It said
Durst had serious health conditions, including bladder cancer,
prior esophageal cancer and malnutrition, making the trial
grueling.
"We are very concerned about his health," Dick DeGuerin,
attorney for Durst, told CNN.
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Graff)
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