http://nypost.com/2015/04/02/why-is-robert-durst-smiling/
If convicted of the gun charges, he could spend “decades in prison, effectively a life sentence,’’ The Guardian newspaper reported this week. This helps explain why his lead defense lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, and his team may be fighting to have the gun charges tossed, and Robert immediately extradited to California.
Here are the top three reasons why, I believe, Durst will skate away from trouble, like an elderly, pot-loving hockey player:
He’s craftier than he looks. Robert Durst charmed Galveston jurors when he testified, sickeningly, about killing Black in a struggle over a gun, then slicing up and disposing of his body. He could spin his magic again.
His wife is a hellion. Robert has been married since 2000 to cutthroat New York-based real estate broker Deborah Lee Charatan, 58, who lives with one of his male lawyers. She’s the “mastermind’’ behind the oddball couple, and Robert listens to her every word, a source told The Post. Although The New York Times reported that Charatan has stepped back from her relationship with Durst and speculated that she might waive spousal privilege and tell authorities what she knows of the man, I don’t see that happening.
The evidence against him could be garbage.
In the final episode that aired last month of the six-part HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,’’ Robert was heard in a bathroom seeming to mutter a confession:
“What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.’’
To me, it sounded like the ramblings of an unhinged man. It may not be admissible in a court of law.
He’s also been connected to a note sent to Los Angeles police, alerting them to the presence of Susan Berman’s “cadaver’’ inside her house — even misspelling Beverly Hills as “Beverley Hills,’’ as Robert did in another letter he admits having written. Durst denies that he wrote the cadaver note.
This doesn’t prove that he committed murder. That is, if the murder case ever gets to trial.
