Professor George Fisher weighs in on the Robert Durst “confession” captured in a recent documentary and whether it will actually be beneficial for prosecutors to use the video in court. 

The whispered words of Robert Durst recorded in an unguarded moment in a bathroom could come back to haunt him – or help him – as he faces a murder charge.

A possible move by prosecutors to introduce the incriminating material from a six-part documentary on his strange life and connection to three killings could backfire as interview footage did in the Michael Jackson molestation trial and the Robert Blake murder case.

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“I would see this moment of unguarded truth as worth a lot of those denials,” said George Fisher, a former prosecutor and professor at Stanford Law School. “The flat out meaning of the statement is very clear on its face.”