Word: newports
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Donald Segretti, 40, political saboteur who tried to undermine primary campaigns of Nixon's potential 1972 Democratic opponents. Distributed letter maliciously claiming Henry Jackson was homosexual and Hubert Humphrey had consorted with call girl. Pleaded guilty to distributing false campaign material. Served four months. Practices law in Newport Beach, Calif...
When Claus von Billow appeared in Newport, R.I., last week to hear himself sentenced to 30 years in prison, he had a new lawyer on his team, a slight, bespectacled fellow with reddish brown, frizzy hair, seen by some as a cross between Woody Allen and Bozo the Clown. But Von Bülow knows that Alan Dershowitz, 43, is no joke. He got the Harvard law professor out of bed at 7 a.m. six weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal...
...crowded Newport courtroom, spectators gasped. "My God!" cried one. "I don't believe it." The prosecutors seemed almost as surprised; they beamed and squeezed each other's hands in celebration. "By God, we've done it," whispered Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Stephen Famiglietti. But as Jury Foreman Barbara Connett twice pronounced the verdict "Guilty," Claus von Bülow, 55, did not even flinch. Except for a flush of bright crimson in his cheeks, he was completely impassive, as he had been throughout the nine-week trial. His urbane façade finally crumbled...
...BOTH ARE NOW, in the eyes of the law, felons. The Boston jury came back with a guilty verdict for the public servant on February 2 The Newport, R.I. dozen issued its "guilty" judgment for the public figure on March...
Meanwhile, Claus von Bulow, the glamorous socialite and financier, the stoic foreigner who stole from the rich and who attempted to murder for love, has become somewhat of a cult hero. Crowds, swelling outside the Newport courthouse as the proceedings dragged on, waited each day for the defendant to appear, cheering him wildly as he smiled and waved before ducking into his car. "Claus" t-shirts and buttons, as well as "Innocent" tote-bags became the rage for the "Free Claus...