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Commercial considerations often place the news that sells before the news that counts, favoring the sensational over the significant. Thus, Claus Von Bulow's titillating but irrelevant trial Flogs headlines, and the case of the Rhode Island couple accused of killing their infant daughter leads the local news. The publican can blame the press, but it shares the burden of guild; when America watches television, it sees a reflection of itself...
Among the current cases: Father Mel Baltazar of Boise was sentenced to seven years in prison last January for lewd conduct with a 15-year-old boy. Father David Boyea of White Lake, Wis., goes on trial this month on three felony charges involving minor boys. Rhode Island Priest P. Henry Leech is scheduled for an August trial on eight such charges, and in that same state Priest William O'Connell, who was already facing 24 charges relating to perhaps twelve or more youths, was arraigned last week on two additional counts. In San Diego, Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, former rector...
Also "indefatigable," says Lawyer Stephen Kaufman, who once lost to Puccio. "There is a saying that 'litigation is more perspiration than inspiration.' He excels at perspiration." Puccio and his four-member defense team began sweating over the Von Bulow case in late 1984. Earlier that year the Rhode Island Supreme Court had reversed the Danish-born aristocrat's 1982 conviction on charges that he twice tried to kill his socialite wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow with insulin injections; since 1980 she has lain in a coma from which she is expected not to recover. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz...
...music as the main attraction at these two auditoriums. The Worcester Centrum has taken over as the reigning local big concert hall. Turner will be there July 21 and 22 and Foreigner August 5 and 6. If you can't get tickets to the Centrum shows, head down to Rhode Island's Providence Civic Center. Tina Turner plays Providence on July 25 and Foreigner on July 27. Up north at New Hampshire's Kingston Fairgrounds, the southern California headbanger band Motley Crue will get vulgar, hiss, and even play some songs on August...
...Judge Corinne Grande told the prosecutors in the retrial of Claus von Bulow that they had four days to produce the former actress whose testimony helped convict Von Bulow in 1982, Isles realized that her greatest star turn was upon her. Ending months of European seclusion, she returned to Rhode Island to testify against her former lover. Demurely yet firmly, she described a 1980 phone call in which Von Bulow confided that he stood by and watched as his wife slipped deep into a coma. Recounted Isles: "Finally, when she was on the point of dying, he said he couldn...