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The Jinx Murder Trial - Robert Durst Testifies, PT 2

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

From the beginning when his lawyers declared in opening arguments that Robert Durst would testify in his own defense, we’ve been anticipating what would happen when the man accused of murdering his friend Susan Berman in order to keep her from implicating him in the murder of his wife Kathy Durst decades earlier. Durst has already convince one jury to acquit him of murder in a Texas trial, can he do it again? Or will he seal his fate attempting to one up the prosecution. Court TV’s Ted Rowlands joins host Vinnie Politan to break it all down. 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 Robert Durst’s testimony, click here.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that opinions all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law sensitive topics are discussed. Discretion is advised.

0:13.4

On this week's court TV podcast, as promised,

0:19.6

we're back with another podcast devoted to the testimony of accused murderer Robert Durst.

0:25.6

This time he's under cross-examination by the prosecutor.

0:29.4

Will Durst be able to stand up to the questioning and convince the jury he didn't kill his friend

0:34.1

Susan Berman or will he seal his own fate? Court TV's Ted Rowlands joins me to discuss.

0:41.6

This is the Court TV Podcast with Vinny Polytan.

0:47.0

I'm Vinny Polytan. Thank you so much for downloading the Court TV podcast. What an episode we have for you today.

0:58.0

There are trials during the course of my years at Court TV and some kind of take on a life of their own and

1:05.4

will live in infamy and right now we are in the midst of one of those.

1:09.6

Robert Durst is the defendant's name you You may recognize him from the docuaries, The Jenks.

1:15.9

This is a man who was charged with murder years ago,

1:21.7

15, 16, 18 years ago in Texas for the murder of his neighbor Morris Black he got on the

1:29.2

witness stand and explained to the jury how he shot him, said it was accidental self-defense,

1:35.2

then explained to the jury how he dismembered him, and the jury came back and found him not guilty.

1:42.3

So now he's being charged for the murder of someone. And the jury came back and found him not guilty.

1:42.5

So now he's being charged for the murder of someone else,

1:45.4

Susan Berman, a friend of his in California,

1:47.8

and once again he has taken the witness stand.

1:50.2

Now, if you didn't listen to last week's episode, you need to do that after you listen to this week's episode.

1:55.4

Last week we talked about his direct examination on the witness stand.

1:59.9

Now he's on cross examination and it's continuing as we're speaking the cross examination is continuing because it's going into record numbers of days that this is taking it is unreal.

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