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Robert Durst sentenced to life in prison for murdering Susan Berman

LOS ANGELES — Robert Durst will live out the rest of his days in a California prison for killing his longtime confidante, Susan Berman, inside her Los Angeles home in 2000, a judge ordered Thursday. Durst’s sentence was effectively set last month as soon as a jury convicted him of murdering Berman and upheld the special circumstances allegation that the 78-year-old real estate scion shot his ...

LOS ANGELES — Robert Durst will live out the rest of his days in a California prison for killing his longtime confidante, Susan Berman, inside her Los Angeles home in 2000, a judge ordered Thursday.

Durst’s sentence was effectively set last month as soon as a jury convicted him of murdering Berman and upheld the special circumstances allegation that the 78-year-old real estate scion shot his friend in order to cover up the killing of his first wife, Kathie, in New York in 1982. Under California law, defendants convicted of special circumstances murder can only

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