By Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg News
Los Angeles prosecutors presenting themurder caseagainst Robert Durst must knit together events tracing back to the days of disco. Durst, the 73-year-old New York real-estate heir, is charged withkilling a friend, Susan Berman, in 2000 because she knew too much about the disappearance of Durst’s first wife 18 years earlier. Though the trial hasn’t been scheduled yet, prosecutors and defense lawyers have started preliminary skirmishes. First up: a hearing Friday over protecting witnesses, with fights still to come over whether the district attorney has enough evidence to put the itinerant, pot-smoking, ...
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