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...stepchildren, Annie-Laurie Kneissl and Alexander von Auersperg, who initiated the investigation that led to the charges, were "quietly satisfied" when told of the verdict, according to their attorney, Richard Kuh. Said he: "Mrs. Von Bülow will be in a coma for the rest of her life. At least, seeing a wrongdoer brought to justice makes the trial seem it has not been all in vain...
...distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections, during two successive Christmas vacations. By May 1981, doctors had declared that Mrs von Bulow's brain had been damaged irreparably, and that she would never waken from her coma...
...trial is Jet-Setter Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of twice trying to murder his heiress-wife of 15 years, Martha ("Sunny"), by injecting her with insulin. Sunny, 50, went into a coma at Christmas time in 1979 and again in 1980; the second seems irreversible. She "is alive in the most primitive sense of the word . . . vegetative," said Prosecutor Stephen Famiglietti. The defense contends that Sunny brought on the comas by overindulging in alcohol, sweets and drugs...
...prosecution's star witness so far has been Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's maid for 23 years. On the day of the first coma in 1979, she testified, she had heard "madame" moaning and had entered the bedroom: "She was rattling, and I thought she would die any second." But, said Schrallhammer, Von Bülow had insisted his wife was only sleeping and refused for almost nine hours to heed the maid's pleas to call a doctor. Later, Schrallhammer testified, she had found in Von Bülow's closet a black bag containing hypodermic...
Gerhard Meier, an internist who examined Sunny when she was taken to Newport Hospital on Dec. 21, 1980, suffering her second coma, said that she had "low blood sugar and an incredibly high insulin level," which is considered an abnormal combination. The defense had hoped that pretrial depositions from lab technicians would substantiate a mix-up in tests indicating that the insulin might have been manufactured in Sunny's body after her admission. But on the stand the technicians said they had been "confused" by defense questions in the pretrial testimony, and insisted that the tests actually had been...