Word: keuper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hypnosis v. Free Will. For a time, Prosecutor Vincent Keuper had his innings. His first and best witness was Marjorie Farber, still attractive at 52, who testified that she had a hypnosis-induced passion for the dark, slender anesthesiologist. After he first mesmerized her in February 1963 in order to break her cigarette habit, they saw each other "constantly." Later, she testified, Coppolino said of her husband: "That man has got to go." Then, she went on, the doctor gave her a drug with which to dispatch Farber. Her nerve failed twice, she said, and so she summoned Coppolino from...
...Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first wife, Carmela, died in Sarasota last year. But he married a well-to-do divorcee six weeks after Carmela's death. It was only then, Bailey said, that Marge Farber turned on her erstwhile lover. Even Keuper conceded that her conduct was "disgusting"; after the verdict was in, asked if she had been a dream witness, he replied, "No, a prosecutor's nightmare...
...contrast, Coppolino turned out to be a first-rate courtroom performer. In two hours on the stand, he bolstered his case with cool, quiet testimony that Keuper could not shake. Coppolino admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular...