Robert Durst

Dick DeGaran staged a pretty dramatic reenactment of the dispute that broke out between Black and Durst.

And you grabbed him like that and wrestled him and you tumbled to the ground.

Would you be acting reasonably?

Once the issue is fairly raised of self-defense, then it's incumbent on the prosecution to disprove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

The state just thought it was going to be impossible for anyone to convince a jury that a case where you cut the body up and you took the head away could have been self-defense.

Don't cut somebody up, another human being, into pieces and bag them up, dump them in the bay when you act in self-defense.

The jury deliberated several days over this.

There's a point where I thought they might end up being hung.

We're all sitting there figuratively chewing our fingernails.

And they give it to the clerk, and the judge looks at it.

Will the defendant please rise?

And kind of paused for just an instant.

Will the jury find the defendant, Robert Durst, not guilty?

When this verdict was read aloud and Robert Durst was acquitted, you could hear the gasps in the courtroom.

Jaws were on the floor.

No one could believe what they'd just heard.

Your client sure seemed shocked when he heard the verdict.

Were you?

I wasn't shocked, and I don't think his expression was one of shock.

It was one of great relief.