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The Jinx Murder Trial - Robert Durst Testifies, PT 1

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Real estate heir Robert Durst has already convinced one jury he should be acquitted of murder charges. Can he do it again? That’s just what he’s attempted by once again taking the stand to testify in his own defense. This time in a Los Angeles courtroom where’s he’s charged with the murder of his friend Susan Berman. How did Durst do under direct examination? Court TV’s Ted Rowland’s joins host Vinnie Politan to discuss. Get the latest updates on CourtTV and CourtTV.com and tune in to see Vinnie Politan and the entire Court TV team review each day’s testimony on Closing Arguments weeknights from 8pm to 11pm. To see more of Court TV’s coverage of The Jinx Murder Trial, click here.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

0:05.0

Opinions, all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

0:09.0

Sensitive topics are discussed.

0:11.0

Discretion is advised.

0:13.4

On this week's court TV podcast, after a year long suspension

0:20.2

due to the pandemic and months of testimony,

0:23.0

LA prosecutors have rested their case against accused murderer Robert Durst.

0:28.0

So now it's his turn to make his case.

0:31.0

And in true Robert Dursturs fashion he is doing it his way by taking the

0:36.5

stand in his own defense just as he did in 2003 when he was acquitted by a Texas jury of murder.

0:44.0

Ken Dursk convinced another jury of the same thing.

0:47.0

Court TV's Ted Rollins joins me to discuss his testimony so far.

0:51.0

This is the Court TV podcast with Vinny Polytan.

0:57.0

Robert Durst, this is a case and a trial unlike any I have ever covered.

1:08.0

I'm Vinny Politan, thank you so much for joining us here on the Court TV podcast and this is this is really something

1:13.4

Robert Durst this is a case that is Robert Durst accused of murdering his best friend

1:18.7

Susan Berman in order to cover up the murder of his first wife back in 1982.

1:26.7

Okay? Now here's the problem.

1:29.0

He was never charged with the murder of his wife

1:31.0

back in 1982 in New York,

1:32.4

but he's being charged and being

1:34.4

implicated in that murder as part of this case as well as the murder of

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