Word: bulow
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While his legal strategist was teaching classes at the Law School yesterday, Danish aristocrat Claus von Bulow began his long-awaited retrial trying Providence on charges of twice trying to murder his heiress wife...
Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz will direct the von Bulow defense from his Law School office, keeping tabs on a three-ring circus of a trial that has all the makings of a cheap courtroom novel: lust, greed, syringes, an heiress' fortune, a bitter maid, and vindictive step-children...
Dershowitz, however, will hear about most of the excitement over the phone. "I'm a professor first and a lawyer second," he said yesterday The outspoken Dershowitz will plan strategy and consult daily with the von Bulow defense team, but will leave most of the courtroom trial work to New York attorney Thomas Puccio...
Dershowitz was not involved in the much-bally hooed, five-week 1982 trial, when Von Bulow was convicted of attempting to kill his wife, Pittsburgh utilities heiress and New port socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin injections...
Legal experts have said that Dershowitz's appeal of the von Bulow case has broadened the scope of the exclusionary rule, which prohibits presentation in court of improperly obtained evidence...