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Real estate scion sentenced to life in prison for murder

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 yesterday. 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 1982. Under California law, defendants convicted of special circumstances murder can only be sentenced to life without parole or execution, and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office chose not to seek the death penalty.

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