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...spiciest cases of the decade, and now it may start up all over again. The Rhode Island Supreme Court last week overturned the conviction of Newport Socialite Claus Von Bülow, the Danish-born playboy convicted in 1982 of twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha, an ailing multimillionaire, by injecting her with overdoses of insulin...
Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who argued Claus von Bulow's successful appeal against a 1982 attempted murder conviction, said yesterday that he would continue to advise von Bulow's defense, but would not represent the case should a new trial be called...
Dershowitz said that he would be unable to represent von Bulow in trial because the proceedings are lengthier than those of an appeals court...
Dershowitz's appeal resulted in the reversal of von Bulow's conviction on the grounds that prosecutors examined crucial evidence without a warrant, and that during the 1982 that the presiding judge illegally barred the defense from certain information collected by the prosecution...
Legal experts have said that Dershowitz's appeal of the von Bulow case has broadened the scope of the exclusionary rule, which prohibits presentation in court of improperly obtained evidence...