The Trials of Claus von Bülow: Science on Trial — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential
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What is the situation and stakes at Claus von Bülow’s 1985 retrial?
It is the spring of 1985. In a hospital bed in New York, a woman named Sunny Von Bulow has been unconscious for more than four years, and she is never going to wake up. 90 miles away in Rhode Island, the man a jury once said put her in that coma is preparing to stand trial for a second time. Sunny's children speak as she cannot.
She's serving a life sentence. She'll never open her eyes again or recognize anybody. She'll never talk to her children. She'll never see her grandchildren.
Three years ago, a Rhode Island jury found Klaus von Bulow guilty of trying to murder his wife. A year ago, a higher court threw out that verdict. Klaus, now free on bail, his first conviction erased, wants one thing and says so to anyone with a camera. Here he talks to Kiro Eyewitness News.
I admit to great fatigue and suffering during the last three years and there are moments when I just wish it would go away. So there's a dichotomy, but I want to get exonerated.
Exonerated is the word he keeps using. Not released on a technicality, but rather cleared by a jury out loud. Now Klaus is back where he started, facing the same two counts of attempted murder, but with a new direction for the defense, courtesy of the Dershowitz team, in a new courthouse in Providence with a jury that has never heard the case. If this jury convicts, the appeal that freed him will have bought him nothing, and he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. This time, the defense will not just argue that the state cannot prove its case, but that there was never any crime at all. I'm Megyn Kelly, and this is MK Confidential. AI can clone your voice, forge your signature, even create fake documents that fool experts.
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He is blunt and combative, a street fighter. Puccio takes over the courtroom, and Alan Dershowitz, who won the appeal, moves into the background. Puccio's plan is the opposite of the first trial, the one that had been about money, a mistress, and an oceanfront mansion. Puccio strips all of it away and tries the case as a single question of medicine. What actually put Sonny von Bulow into a coma? And as before, Klaus von Bulow will not take the stand. But moving into the background is not the same as stepping away. Years later, Dershowitz would describe just how much of the second trial ran on the work he and his students had already done.
The whole retrial was based on our work. In fact, my two main research assistants from the law school, Joanne Crispy and a guy from the medical school, they sat with the trial lawyer and fed him all the information.
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