robert blake's great, but i thought we could do something different.ted somebody with more edge. he was brooding. and i called him up. i said come to my house. i want to talk to you about this movie i may have. he drove up in a harley put his boots up. i said you got to help me here. we've got to convince quen o i'm going to be stuck with robert blake. it was right after he came out on the cover of "us" magazine. i said, you know he kind of looks like you, you could be brothers. he said, you're right. [ bleep ] we're like fraternal brothers. clooney came onto the set. and said we kind of look alike. yes. >> said shut up. you got the role. that changed everything. he went from being a nice doctor on tv to being a killer. you do this movie and you'll have every role in between. people see the range. >> jimmy: guillermo's been doing a lot of acting, and it's just not happening for him. >> i know you got a great gig here. you come to l.a., you'd be the star. >> jimmy: you own a taco place here. >> i do. you ate there. >> jimmy: yes. coincidently. i had no

i was robert blake's lead lawyer for a long period of time in his case.a small piece of an interview and introduced it as an admission, and doing that let the defense bring in the whole interview, and he didn't have to testify and be cross-examined. sometimes be careful what you wish for. i don't think this assist particularly as damning as other people. >> you think it's a high bar for the prosecution? >> i think they need to be very careful. i'm smelling hubris all over this. he has an excellent defense lawyer, and i think the prosecution better be real careful how they behave. >> what role will the producers of this -- "the jinx" play in this trial? >> well again, i don't know all the evidence but they're likely to be subpoenaed as witnesses and be cross-examined on the tactics, on the editing policy. i'm told their timeline has a lot of problems in that documentary. i suspect the last thing they said to do is be witnesses in a murder trial involving mr. durst. >> why were the producers of a television show able to do what law enforcement couldn't do?

. >> mesereau represented robert blake in a murder case and michael jackson in his child molestation trial. both had made incriminating statements on television. both were found not guilty. mesereau says videotape could back durst on the prosecutors too. >> that would allow the defense to argue if you going to bring in select statements we should be able to bring in other statements where he exonerates himself. >> reporter: and durst says several times in the documentary that he did nothing wrong. >> i had nothing to do with susan berman's death. >> reporter: another key piece of evidence against durst this envelope alerting police to berman's murder matches a previous letter durst sent to berman, both misspelling 0 hollywood. >> the problem is that lapd investigators initially linked the, linked the writing to someone else. >> they explain that away or they tried but you can bet that that is going to come up again in court. >> clouding the water could help the defense? >> the defense is already thinking, i can raise some reasonable doubt that handwriting comparison alone should rais

. >> reporter: mesereau represented michael jackson and robert blake.oth had made incriminating statements on television. both were found not guilty. mesereau said video could become fire on the prosecutors too. >> i would argue to them if they're allowed to bring in select statements, we should be able to bring in other statements where he exonerates himself. >> reporter: and durst says several times in the documentary he did nothing wrong. >> i had nothing to do with susan berman's death. >> reporter: and this envelope matches the spelling in a previous letter. both misspelling beverly hills. the problem says loyola university lawyer laurie levenson said they initially linking the writing to someone else. >> they explained that away or tried but you can bet that's going to come up again in court. >> reporter: omar villafranca, cbs news, los angeles. >>> straight ahead in "moneywatch," the best states for retiring americans, and later we'll introduce you to a retiree with a voracious appetite for reading. for reading. i found out the hard way... not al

the account robert blake, michael jackson, o.j. and he has millions of dollars he got away with murder in texas. what is to keep that from happening? >> that they will keep it from happening other than the common sense of the jury but it just means you can hire the best attorneys in there is an advantage to having an attorney who doesn't have any case to work on but yours. a public defender has hundreds of cases but the facts are what they are. makes for a strong third defense to attack the case but they don't have to buy the attack. the evidence of a letter is the most powerful evidence. the statement in the bathroom and a shocking but a good lawyer can explain it away. but with the better it takes on a more powerful value it is a the other breath in of of all the evidence. kennedy: lapd says they don't even need his statements from the hbo documentary they have plenty perhaps they were helped through her stepson years later found a letter from robert durst that matched the handwriting the one that is said to the beverly hills pol

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reporters are outside the van nuys courthouse to cover a hearing in the murder trial of actor robert blakeut the real drama caught on camera that day is this. >> i just went down on all fours to try to scramble away from him. i knew something bad had happened, i didn't know exactly what it was. >> 53-year-old los angeles attorney gerald curry is leaving the courthouse after attending a hearing about a medical trust fund case. a heavyset man wearing glasses confronts him and asks if he is mr. curry. >> and i said, "yes, who are you?" i just remember an incredibly loud pop or bang. >> television news crews hear it too and scramble to the scene. >> there was a lot of people screaming. "oh, my god, oh, my god." >> i went behind the tree. i was very scared as he approached me with the gun outstretched. >> at first, witnesses don't know what's going on. some think a movie is filming. maybe it's fireworks or a crazy prank. sonny kang is on a pay phone nearby. >> i heard the loud noise and turned around real quick and the first thing i see is the older guy with a gun in his hand. i was going to ru

look at robert blake.g, you figure the guy is gone right? well let's say they convince one juror that he knew the thing was being recorded and he's kind of a weird guy and he was playing with these people because he resented the way they confronted him. then let's say, well the killer saw that envelope in her papers and said i'll copy that exactly. that will incriminate. there's a lot of things they could say. i don't think they're going to fly. there are a lot of things they could say. >> you aed to it so many years, right? the 15 year time line plus perhaps and then you look at the various crime scenes in various states and locations and cities. do you look at the investigation and sort of say, look if somebody had done their job differently, better in another way maybe lives would have been saved along the way? >> you have to think that. to me the really critical point was that when the detectives were canvassing her apartment building. >> susan durst. >> kathie durst. >> he goes up and asks the door ma