Word: bulow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen years to the day before the two attorneys made their final pleas to the jury, Claus and Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow were married in a small ceremony in New York City. If the defendant was aware of the irony, he did not show it. While his lawyer depicted him as a callous philanderer but not a murderous one, and the prosecution made him out to be a homicidal schemer, Claus von Bulow, his wedding ring as ever on his left hand, maintained an attitude of intense if slightly distant interest. Afterward, the jury of eight men and four women...
...physician, Dr. Janis Gailitis, that the latter believed that his patient's 1979 coma was due not to an insulin injection but to her choking on her own vomit, a theory the doctor said the prosecutors told him to keep to himself in 1982. Finally, Puccio prevented Mrs. Von Bulow's personal banker, G. Morris Gurley, from testifying about the millions Von Bulow stood to inherit, thereby undermining the state's claim that greed motivated Von Bulow...
...opening statement for the defense last week, Puccio promised to "present a picture of Mrs. Von Bulow as a woman who over a period of years became addicted to the use of drugs . . . a woman who was besieged by many problems, by her daughter leaving home to get married, by her husband involved with another woman, and who on at least three occasions took actions with her own hand which caused her to be in the state she is in today." His first expert, Dr. Leo Dal Cortivo, chief toxicologist in the Suffolk County, N.Y., medical examiner's office, said...
...succession of experts then began to unravel the prosecution's case on the basis of Sunny's medical records. One testified that Mrs. Von Bulow had taken 15 aspirin tablets, six to seven amobarbital capsules and a few stiff drinks before losing consciousness in 1980. Another asserted that Mrs. Von Bulow's comas were each caused by cardiopulmonary arrest. On Friday Dr. Arthur Rubenstein, an endocrinologist, testified that the positive insulin test results at the center of the state's case were invalid. "I personally would have no confidence in any of those values," he said. Claimed Puccio...
...Bulow, who appeared nervous and incredulous when Isles was testifying, seemed almost smug once his own witnesses took the stand. During a recess, he declared with a disdainful sweep of his hand, "It's a medical, scientific case. When they start throwing the dirt around, it's really irrelevant." Yet it may be the dirt rather than the science that settles in the minds of the jurors...