lawyers say durst , 72 , got the money , now held by new orleans police , legally and it is not needed for evidence or subject to forfeiture in any of his legal proceedings that durst was arrested at the jw marriott hotel in new orleans on a los angeles county warrant that accused him of killing his friend susan berman in 2000 .
authorities who arrested durst in mid-march found $ 44,000 , marijuana and a revolver at his hotel room in new orleans .