Robert Durst is ill and needs special medical attention behind bars, his attorney says
Robert Durst after a court proceeding in New Orleans in March 2015. The New York real estate scion’s attorneys say he’s ill and should serve his sentence on a weapons charge in a Los Angeles-area prison hospital.
Robert Durst is asking a federal judge to recommend a Los Angeles-area prison when he’s sentenced on the weapons charge that’s kept him in Louisiana pending his trial on a California murder charge.
Sentencing is scheduled Wednesday for the 72-year-old real estate heir, arrested last year in New Orleans.
A Monday court filing by Durst’s lawyers says Durst is ill, and that California’s Terminal Island prison has the sort of medical facilities he needs. And, they note, it’s near Los Angeles, where Durst faces trial in the 2000 death of his friend Susan Berman.
Durst pleaded guilty to the weapons charge in February, accepting an 85-month prison sentence. Judge Kurt Englehardt said he would decide whether to accept that agreement after reading a pre-sentencing report that has not been made public.
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