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...hours before the service, West German President Richard von Weizsacker had challenged his countrymen not to flinch from their responsibility for the Holocaust. "Every German was able to experience what his Jewish compatriots had to suffer, ranging from plain apathy and hidden intolerance to outright hatred," he declared in a speech in parliament. "But too many people (attempted) not to take notice of what was happening. When the unspeakable truth . . . became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, or even suspected anything...
DeSisto, the new prosecutor, is an earnest but inexperienced 29-year-old legal beagle who already seems frustrated. Von Bulow's principal attorney for this trial is former Abscam Prosecutor Thomas Puccio, who is as brashly streetwise as Claus is polo-wise; Dershowitz, a constitutional expert, is advising him from the wings...
...Von Bulow, who maintained an imperious aloofness during the first trial, seems to have undergone image surgery. Though he still looks as if he would be most at home in a uniform, he has taken to draping his 6-ft. 3-in. frame with the occasional plaid sport coat instead of the somber suits of the first trial. Last week, as Corinne Grande, the presiding judge, led jurors on a walking tour of Clarendon Court, the family mansion in Newport and the alleged scene of the crime, Von Bulow strayed over to the kennel to play with the three golden...
...prosecution strategy mirrors that of the first trial: persuade the jury that Von Bulow tried to murder Sunny because of the $14 million he stood to inherit and because his mistress, Alexandra Isles, had threatened to leave him if he did not marry her. Isles, a socialite and former soap-opera actress whose dramatic testimony may have helped convict her ex-lover the first time around, has apparently left the country, and no one seems sure whether she will reappear...
...defense team says it will remedy what Puccio regards as a bungled job the first time out. Puccio intends to portray Sunny as a bored, boring and spoiled brat, as well as a depressed drunk and drug abuser who may have intended to take her own life. As ever, Von Bulow can be seen, the / testimony playing itself out in front of him, leaning back in his wooden chair, with two perfectly manicured fingers placed horizontally across his lips...