Robert Durst testifies at murder trial that he would lie under oath — Transcript

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1. 0:00mr lewin and his colleagues
2. 0:03you may resume your examination
3. 0:06mr daguerre would you lie under oath to
4. 0:08help your case
5. 0:10yes
6. 0:11okay
7. 0:12have you lied thus far during your
8. 0:13testimony at this trial
9. 0:15no
10. 0:16but
11. 0:18if you had lied given your last answer
12. 0:21you might not admit it correct
13. 0:40correct
14. 0:45because what i'm saying is mostly the
15. 0:47truth
16. 0:49there were certain things that i would
17. 0:50lie about
18. 0:52certain very important things
19. 0:55so maybe another way to say mr durst is
20. 0:57would you agree that the question of
21. 0:59did you kill susan berman is the most
22. 1:02important question in this trial
23. 1:04i would agree with that and you've also
24. 1:07just agreed that you would lie about
25. 1:09that
26. 1:11and you also just agreed
27. 1:14that in fact if you had killed her you
28. 1:17wouldn't tell us correct correct
29. 1:23a
30. 1:24hypothetical did you kill susan berman
31. 1:28is strictly a hypothetical
32. 1:32i did not kill susan berman
33. 1:35but if i had i would lie about it
34. 1:38so
35. 1:41if you had killed kathy and i asked you
36. 1:44mr durst you're under oath right now
37. 1:46today did you kill kathy would you tell
38. 1:48us
39. 1:51no
40. 1:55let me ask you mr durst if you had
41. 1:56murdered morris black would you tell us
42. 2:00no
43. 2:04the reason you've been caught in so many
44. 2:06of your lies is that they're just not
45. 2:09very good
46. 2:13well you bring up the cadaver nose
47. 2:17and i had to lie about the cadaver
48. 2:19though
49. 2:21because anyone who saw the cadaver know
50. 2:25would have to believe
51. 2:27that i was with chosen burma
52. 2:31when she died
53. 2:32well it's worse than that mr durst you
54. 2:34previously said on multiple occasions
55. 2:37that quote that's a note only the killer
56. 2:40could have written
57. 2:42correct
58. 2:43that's what andrew asked me to say that
59. 2:46that's another thing that mr director
60. 2:48asked you to say did he ask you to say
61. 2:50it when you were speaking to me as well
62. 2:52in 2015
63. 2:56well he asked me to say it once and i
64. 2:59repeat that
65. 3:00so
66. 3:04seriously
67. 3:14if i had been offered the right deal
68. 3:17i would have confessed to murdering
69. 3:19susan barman
70. 3:21to murdering kathy durst
71. 3:25to murdering john lennon
72. 3:29to murdering jack kennedy
73. 3:32to murdering morris black
74. 3:35after murdering anybody else whose name
75. 3:37i could think of
76. 3:42so any kind of plea bargain
77. 3:45that would get me into a
78. 3:48decent prison system
79. 3:51california
80. 3:53is known
81. 3:54for treating inmates
82. 3:56like human beings
83. 3:59i figured i'd be happy
84. 4:01to spend these last five years
85. 4:05in the california prison system
86. 4:08even if
87. 4:10in the
88. 4:12recording of your talking to yourself
89. 4:15you also said
90. 4:17kill them all of course
91. 4:20yeah
92. 4:21what did you mean by that what i did not
93. 4:23say out loud
94. 4:25or perhaps i said very softly
95. 4:29because they'll all think i killed them
96. 4:31all of course
97. 4:36when you said
98. 4:38there it is you're caught what did you
99. 4:40mean
100. 4:41i was talking about being caught
101. 4:44riding the cadaver nose
102. 4:48did you take a gun with you i did what
103. 4:51were you going to do with the gun
104. 4:53i was wondering
105. 4:55was going to shoot myself
106. 4:59this mr daguerreon and mr chestnut all
107. 5:02are present
108. 5:04and for the people we have mr
109. 5:06miata mr milius mr billion
110. 5:09examining the defendant mr
111. 5:12lewin
112. 5:13is