Robert Durst

One of the strangest courtroom cases in the country.

By now, it's getting a lot of coverage.

The millionaire black sheep Robert Durst, his fall from grace, has all of New York talking.

Really, it was more about the murderer in this case.

There was a whole lot of people who thought that a guilty conviction for him was going to be a slam dunk.

Unlike with the disappearance of Kathy or the murder of Susan Berman, there was a mountain of evidence tying Bob to the murder scene.

robert durst had the luxury of hiring a fort knox of defense attorneys these are some really high profile guys he hires the two best legal gunslingers in the state of texas dick de garin and dave ramsey and then to round out the trio of lawyers they brought in chip lewis

Everybody in Galveston has been real nice to us.

Dick DeGaran is very much a Texas trial lawyer.

He's got the cowboy hat.

He is disciplined.

He is professional to an extreme.

As far as a defense, first we had to divorce the bizarre facts from the case, from what actually happened when Morris Black died.

This case is not about what Bob Durst did after Morris Black died.

From the get-go, Durst and his lawyers admitted that he killed Morris Black, but they claimed that he acted in self-defense.

The gun went off with Morris Black's finger on the trigger.

All rise, please.

Where the defense's argument involves self-defense, it's not uncommon for defendants to take the stand, and Robert Durst did just that in dramatic fashion.

He gets on the stand, admits he killed him, admits he dismembered him.

Durst spoke candidly in court today, taking jurors through the pitfalls of his life, from his battle with bulimia as a child to his ongoing battle with his addiction to marijuana and alcohol.