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Lawyers for Durst ask for postponement of murder trial due to ill health: CNN

Published 2021-05-14, 06:14 a/m
Updated 2021-05-14, 06:18 a/m
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Real estate heir Robert Durst looks over during his murder trial in Los Angeles

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Real estate heir Robert Durst looks over during his murder trial in Los Angeles

(Reuters) - Lawyers for suspected serial killer Robert Durst, the subject of an Emmy-award winning six-part HBO crime documentary, have filed an emergency motion to postpone his murder trial over health issues including bladder cancer, CNN reported.

The 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.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Real estate heir Robert Durst looks over during his murder trial in Los Angeles

"We are very concerned about his health," Dick DeGuerin, attorney for Durst, told CNN.

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