Durst defense team sways jury

   Beware Texans; a killer is among us. He could look like an unassuming middle-aged millionaire, you could find him hiding the head of his latest victim, or he could appear to be an elderly mute woman.
   We may never know where Robert Durst could be hiding.
   Durst is currently being held on charges of bail jumping, which could bring him up to 10 years in prison, but a Texas jury just found him not guilty of murder in Galveston.
   Durst has admitted to accidentally killing 71-year-old Morris Black, then chopping the body up into pieces (which he claims he does not remember) and throwing them into the Galveston Bay. Sadly, Black’s head has not yet been found.
   Durst later was captured and charged with murder. The prosecutors in the case told jurors to accept no charge less then murder, therefore, ruling out any chance of getting Durst on a lesser manslaughter charge.
   With those thoughts in mind, the jury took 26 hours over five days to find Durst not guilty.
   Durst also is under suspicion for the 1982 disappearance of his first wife in New York state and the 2000 shooting of long-time friend Susan Berman, a Los Angeles writer who was set to be questioned about Durst’s missing wife.
   “He will kill again,” Thomas Durst, Robert’s brother, told the New York Post. “Bob is a madman.”
   Durst, after a hearing over his bail jumping, may walk.
   Jurors somehow believed Durst when he testified that he accidentally killed a man, cut up the body and dumped it into the    Galveston Bay. He said he drove off, then turned around, retrieved the head and got rid of it.
   Jurors believed the prosecution did not prove its case.
   Juror Chris Lovell told the press that he was mostly swayed by the lack of consistency in the prosecution’s case.
   “From the very beginning of this trial, the defense told us a story, and they stuck to their guns all the way through. I did not believe everything they said, but every time they told us a story, they were consistent in what they said,” he said.
   It is strange how jurors in such major cases cannot see what the rest of the world sees.
   A rational person would call the police if they shot someone in self-defense. A panicked person might run or even hide the body.
   However, the sheer act of cutting up a body, deliberately dumping the body and then returning to the dumpsite to retrieve the head shows how calm and collected Durst was.
   Jurors today are too easily swayed by a defense attorney’s dog-and-pony show to see the basic common sense of a situation.
  A person would not show such clear-headed thinking while in the supposed terrified hysteria Durst claims he was in.
  Anyone except this Texas jury could see that.