Based on this Houston Chronicle story, a budding friendship appears to be one of the results of the recent well-publicized murder trial of Robert Durst in Galveston.
Dick DeGuerin, Durst’s attorney, is another of the unusual number of excellent Houston-based criminal defense attorneys, which was also noted in this earlier post. Among the many others in that formidable Houston criminal defense bar–many of whom were mentored by Racehorse Haynes and the late Percy Foreman–are Dick’s brother, Mike DeGeurin (yes, the brothers spell their last name differently), Mike Ramsey, Jack Zimmerman, Rusty Hardin, David Berg, Joel Androphy, Robert Scardino, Mike Hinton, Dan Cogdell, Tom Hagemann and Robert Sussman. Houston’s criminal defense bar compares favorably with the criminal defense bar of any city in the country.