Word: bulow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury plainly did that. Unlike many celebrated murder trials, a not-guilty finding appealed to no constituency. There were none of the Southern racists who might have applauded the acquittal of James Earl Ray, none of the Rhode Island jet setters who would have loved to see Claus von Bulow go free...
...slow day in court, in Metro Region An envelope stuffed with 10 hundred-dollar bills--which James F. O'Leary, general manager of the MBTA, counted out one by one at the witness stand--and a little black case, a calculator case, containing syringes tainted with insulin--which von Bulow's stepson found in the accused's locked closet--became tangible symbols the masses could feel Frank J. Walters Jr., the 35-year-old assistant who was indicted last year with Locke but who later testified against his boss in order to keep a newly adopted child; and Maria Schrallhammer...
...ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational in part because only rarely is a criminal of his economic and social stature actually brought to trial...
Meanwhile, Claus von Bulow, the glamorous socialite and financier, the stoic foreigner who stole from the rich and who attempted to murder for love, has become somewhat of a cult hero. Crowds, swelling outside the Newport courthouse as the proceedings dragged on, waited each day for the defendant to appear, cheering him wildly as he smiled and waved before ducking into his car. "Claus" t-shirts and buttons, as well as "Innocent" tote-bags became the rage for the "Free Claus...
...with their flair for poetic justice, furthered those images when they doled out legal justice. Locke, for his pains, got a seven-to 10-year sentence, he must serve at least 28 months before becoming eligible for parole. He currently resides in Walpole, the Alcatraz of New England Von Bulow has yet to receive a sentence and most likely won't for some time. If the day ever comes when he is forced to do time, it will most likely be in a minimum security set-up more suitable for one of his social stature. The parallel between...