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By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, is due in a New Orleans courtroom on Thursday on weapons charges his attorneys are expected to say stem from an improper search. Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," has sought to speed his extradition to California, where he has been charged with the 2000 murder of longtime friend Susan Berman and could face the death penalty. His lawyers argue that his arrest and the initial search of his hotel room last month without a warrant in New Orleans were improper, and that investigators wrongly interviewed him without counsel present. The HBO documentary showed Durst being presented with evidence his handwriting appeared to match that of Berman's likely killer.
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