attorney Dick DeGuerin Robert Durst, seated with attorney Dick DeGuerin, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday without chance of parole for the murder of Susan Berman more than two decades ago.

Attorney Dick DeGuerin represented David Koresh (pictured), and remains critical of how the ATF conducted the raid in Waco. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Like most, Houston-based attorney Dick DeGuerin first heard of David Koresh through a newscast.

Durst, a frail 78-year-old millionaire who sat through the trial in a wheelchair, was convicted of first-degree murder and faces a life sentence with no option for parole. A judge is scheduled to sentence him in October. The jury also found that special circumstances had been proven in connection to the death of Ms.

Durst, who has since been tried for two different murders and convicted once, has long insisted that he did not kill his wife, whose body has never been found. Chip Lewis, a Houston criminal defense lawyer who represented Mr. Durst at trials in Texas in 2003 and Los Angeles in 2021, called the new charge fake news.

49-year-old Sibling rivalry is one of the most recognized normal negative traits in our society, says 49-year-old Michael DeGeurin as he sits in the chair that was once the property of his mentor.

Kathie Durst was 29 and in her final months of medical school when she was last seen. She and Robert Durst, who was 38 at the time, had been married nearly nine years and were living in South Salem, a community in Lewisboro. Her body was never found. At the request of her family, she was declared legally dead in 2017.

LOS ANGELES Robert Durst, the multimillionaire real estate heir who seemed to confess to three murders on the HBO documentary The Jinx, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his friend Susan Berman in 2000.

2020 America’s Richest Families NET WORTH Seymour’s son Douglas and his nephew Jody now run the company, which owns assets worth an estimated $8.1 billion.

According to Forbes, the Durst family is estimated to be worth an astounding $8.1 billion altogether when taking into account their more than 16 million-square-foot of real estate in New York and Philadelphia, including a 10% stake in One World Trade Center.

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