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...finally in June, the eyes of the nation turned to a Providence courtroom, where prominent socialite Claus von Bulow stood accused of killing his wife in their Newport mansion...
...September, Laura Zaccaro, Cosima von Bulow and Amy Carter enrolled in college in Providence. If you stuck your ear to the ground, you could hear the rumblings down there...
Commercial considerations often place the news that sells before the news that counts, favoring the sensational over the significant. Thus, Claus Von Bulow's titillating but irrelevant trial Flogs headlines, and the case of the Rhode Island couple accused of killing their infant daughter leads the local news. The publican can blame the press, but it shares the burden of guild; when America watches television, it sees a reflection of itself...
During the second trial's opening statements in April, the prosecution told the jury it would show that Von Bulow had sought to murder the heiress so he could inherit the millions he was promised in her will and marry his then mistress, former Soap Opera Actress Alexandra Isles. But some of the promised proof was never introduced. With carefully crafted motions, raising such issues as relevance and prosecutorial failure to lay necessary legal groundwork, Puccio persuaded Judge Corinne Grande to exclude Sunny von Bulow's will, testimony from her financial adviser and evidence that Von Bulow knew...
After performing those feats of damage control, Puccio narrowed his own case to one clear, pointed counterpunch. No crime had been committed, he declared, because Mrs. Von Bulow had never been given any insulin. A series of medical experts backed his contention that there was no firm proof of insulin injection. With much of the circumstantial evidence against Von Bulow in tatters, most lawyers agree that the jury had little choice. But some disparaged Puccio's performance. "What victory?" snorted one former colleague. "Against a prosecutor with little experience and a judge who leaned his way?" Others were more impressed...