Robert Durst hospitalized with COVID-19, his lawyer says

A lawyer says ny precise estate inheritor Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19

ByThe associated Press

October sixteen, 2021, eight:36 PM

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los angeles -- ny precise property inheritor Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, his lawyer referred to Saturday.

protection lawyer Dick DeGuerin said he become notified that Durst turned into admitted after checking out high quality for the coronavirus. DeGuerin stated he didn't know Durst's circumstance and became trying to discover extra particulars.

Durst, 78, changed into sentenced Thursday to existence in detention center with out an opportunity of parole for the homicide of his best friend greater than two decades in the past. Durst, who has numerous medical issues, sat in a wheelchair with a catatonic stare all over tons of the sentencing hearing.

"He changed into very, very unwell within the courtroom," DeGuerin noted Saturday.

He changed into convicted in los angeles advanced court docket closing month of first-degree homicide for capturing Susan Berman point-blank within the again of the head at her home in December 2000.

The killing had been a mystery that haunted family unit and chums for 15 years before Durst turned into arrested in 2015 following his unwise choice to take part in a documentary that unearthed new facts and caught him in a pretty confession.

DeGuerin said Thursday that Durst will appeal.