Word: bulow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Socialite Claus von Bulow did not testify during the retrial which acquitted him last year because his legal advisers wanted the jury to focus on medical rather than "soapopera testimony," said von Bulow's lawyer, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz in his upcoming book, "Reversal of Fortune...
...Claus taken the stand, the jury's focus would have been on him," said Dershowitz, who was hired by von Bulow to secure a retrial and to advise him on his defense. "And no one can know for sure what the verdict would have been...
...Bulow was convicted in his first trial for attempting to murder his millionaire wife Sunny by giving her coma-inducing insulin injections...
Dershowitz said he and Tom Puccio, von Bulow's courtroom attorney in the second trial, arrived at their decision at a Providence, R.I. "summit meeting" with the socialite just before the second trial began. They concluded that chances for acquittal would be best if the defense's case focused on medical testimony that Sunny's comas were not clearly induced by insulin...
...Celtics lost but Von Bulow won so I guess I came out even," says Dershowitz...