Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Claus von Bulow, his wedding ring as ever on his left hand, maintained an attitude of intense if slightly distant interest. Afterward, the jury of eight men and four women filed out of the courtroom to begin deliberations on whether he had twice attempted to murder his wife with insulin injections. At week's end, the sequestered jurors still had not rendered a verdict...
Puccio, standing stiffly behind a wooden lectern ten feet from the jury, relentlessly disputed the central tenet of the prosecution's case: that insulin had been used to cause Mrs. Von Bulow's two comas. With increasing vehemence, he punctuated his argument with the phrase "No insulin injection!" as he recapitulated testimony by the defense's medical experts...
...forcing him to admit that the family had contemplated buying Claus out before they went to the police with their suspicions. He also obtained testimony from Sunny's personal physician, Dr. Janis Gailitis, that the latter believed that his patient's 1979 coma was due not to an insulin injection but to her choking on her own vomit, a theory the doctor said the prosecutors told him to keep to himself in 1982. Finally, Puccio prevented Mrs. Von Bulow's personal banker, G. Morris Gurley, from testifying about the millions Von Bulow stood to inherit, thereby undermining the state...
...involved with another woman, and who on at least three occasions took actions with her own hand which caused her to be in the state she is in today." His first expert, Dr. Leo Dal Cortivo, chief toxicologist in the Suffolk County, N.Y., medical examiner's office, said the insulin on the needle that the state contends Von Bulow used to inject his wife was not left over from an injection, since a needle is always wiped clean by the skin upon removal. The doctor went on to speculate that Sunny's hospitalization three weeks before she fell into...
...that Mrs. Von Bulow had taken 15 aspirin tablets, six to seven amobarbital capsules and a few stiff drinks before losing consciousness in 1980. Another asserted that Mrs. Von Bulow's comas were each caused by cardiopulmonary arrest. On Friday Dr. Arthur Rubenstein, an endocrinologist, testified that the positive insulin test results at the center of the state's case were invalid. "I personally would have no confidence in any of those values," he said. Claimed Puccio: "By the end of this, the whole issue of insulin will be out of the trial...