http://www.courttv.com/trials/durst/111103_analysis_ctv.htmlGALVESTON, Texas — Lawyers for Robert Durst could not have been facing a steeper hill when they began picking jurors Aug. 25 for the eccentric millionaire's murder trial. Somehow, however, they made it to the top and down the other side.
Durst, 60, carelessly left a trail of evidentiary crumbs in his wake after he dismembered the body of his 71-year-old neighbor, threw the pieces in Galveston Bay and fled this Gulf Coast community with $600,000 to finance his brief life as a fugitive.
Lead defense attorney Dick DeGuerin, one of Texas' top criminal defense lawyers, must have stressed three dozen times during the trial that Durst was not on trial for dismembering Morris Black or jumping bail after he was charged. Reporters from Durst's native New York smiled every time DeGuerin argued that position, but jurors took it to heart.