NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A fugitive New York real estate heir held in Louisiana on a weapons charge has a court date for a plea agreement that will let him return to Los Angeles to face a murder charge.
Court filings show U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt has scheduled Robert Durst’s re-arraignment for Wednesday morning on a charge of illegally carrying a .38-caliber revolver after being convicted of a felony.
The charge has kept him in Louisiana even though he waived extradition to California to face a charge that he killed a friend and onetime spokeswoman in 2000.
“It’s our purpose … to ‘clear the decks’ of anything and everything that would delay Bob’s transfer to California so we can start preparing for trial in the Susan Berman case,” attorney Richard DeGuerin wrote in an email Tuesday. “Bob Durst didn’t kill Susan Berman and doesn’t know who did, and he’s eager to go to trial and prove it.”
Previous filings show Durst, 72, has made a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Louisiana. In December, his attorneys and Los Angeles prosecutors signed an agreement that he would be extradited by Aug. 18.