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Robert Durst’s plea deal became an 85 month (7 years, 1 month) sentence in federal prison because of the possibility of other state and federal charges being brought against him.

He was scheduled to be moved to a federal prison in California by August 18, 2016 to stand trial for the murder of his friend Susan Berman, but after a second spinal fusion surgery in July, he was instead was transferred to one of the two ‘level 3’ medical facilities in the federal prison system, located in Terre Haute, Indiana.

His primary defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin, says he does not know why Durst was transferred there and both him and his client want to get to California as soon as possible to begin the Berman murder trial.

As of 1/25/16, Robert Durst is currently in jail outside of New Orleans, awaiting a trial date when he will plead guilty to federal gun charges related to his New Orleans arrest in March 2015. The plea deal calls for a 5 year federal sentence to be served in California, where he will await going on trial for the murder of Susan Berman, sometime after August 2016.

Durst also is contending with a lawsuit from his first wife Kathie McCormack Durst’s family. Her 101 year old mother and three sisters have filed a $100 million lawsuit against Durst. The lawsuit contends that Durst violated the family’s right to sepulcher, a rarely used New
York law granting family members the immediate right to possession of a body for burial.