Stewart Altman, who has represented Durst over the years, said that in hindsight he realized it was “inadvisable” that he’d spoken to his wife, Emily, while she was still on the witness stand. Durst is accused of shooting his longtime friend Susan Berman inside her Benedict Canyon home in 2000. Prosecutors maintain the slaying was meant to silence Berman for what she knew about the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s wife, Kathleen. John Lewin if he was a neutral party, and he responded: “You realize that I am Robert Durst’s attorney? But he insisted that he never told his wife that he was the source of information about Durst’s whereabouts.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 30, 2017 02:41 UTC