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Millionaire socialite Claus Von Bulow was convicted of attempted murder earlier this year because of a vigilante action. Alan M Dershowitz professor of Law charged this week...
Like Jean Harris, who killed the inventor of the Scarsdale Diet, and Claus Von Bulow, the man accused of fatally injecting his heiress wife with insulin, DeLorean has taken a long fall. As one former associate said, "When you like on the 43rd floor on Park Avenue, you have nowhere to go but down; and he did, with a bang." But DeLorean had talent and contributed much to automobile world; it is sad to lose his services. For all intents and purposes, though, this American Dream has come...
...MOST JARRING PART of The Best Defense comes on page 168. The same Alan M. Dershowitz who challenged PLO advocate Vanessa Redgrave to debate "anything, anywhere, anytime", who let it be known that he would represent Claus von Bulow in the Danish socialite's appeal; who once disrupted a Kennedy School panel chaired by a fellow Law professor by rushing the podium and shouting that a Palestinian panelist was a "metaphysical cheerleader"--the Alan Dershowitz almost everyone at Harvard has read about--says he resents lawyers who go public. "I do not like to see cases tried in the press...
...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...
...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...