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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 said that he would be unable to represent von Bulow in trial because the proceedings are lengthier than those of an appeals court...
Dershowitz's appeal resulted in the reversal of von Bulow's conviction on the grounds that prosecutors examined crucial evidence without a warrant, and that during the 1982 that the presiding judge illegally barred the defense from certain information collected by the prosecution...
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...