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...their summations, the attorneys in the Von Bulow case seemed to have exchanged roles. Defense Counsel Thomas Puccio once again seemed to be the aggressive prosecutor of his Abscam days, assertively addressing the facts of the case, while Prosecutor Marc DeSisto offered a histrionic and impassioned plea, long on emotion, short on detail...
...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...
...Puccio succeeded in embarrassing Alexander von Auersperg, Sunny's son, by 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...
...opening statement for the defense last week, Puccio promised to "present a picture of Mrs. Von Bulow as a woman who over a period of years became addicted to the use of drugs . . . a woman who was besieged by many problems, by her daughter leaving home to get married, by her husband 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...
...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...