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The heiress Martha Sharp Crawford has died after more than two decades in a coma.
She is known to the world as Sunny Von Bulow but I am reluctant to append the name of her husband Claus Von Bulow to hers because he is the man who was accused in two murder trials of injecting her with insulin in an attempt to kill her.
The lawyer Alan Dershowitz enabled Claus Von Bulow to beat the rap for murdering his wife.
Mr Dershowitz is mentioned in some but not all of the internet reportage of Sunny's death.
CNN quotes him asserting that he (Dershowitz) proved Claus Von Bulow did not murder her.
He proved no such thing.
But he won the court case.
And for defence lawyers that is enough.
For the rest of us it may not be.
Morally and from the point of view of human integrity, Mr Dershowitz stands on a par with Johnny Cochrane the lawyer who helped OJ Simpson beat his murder raps.
Johnny Cochrane is now answering directly to God for his actions in the OJ case, giving an account of himself before a Judge to whom it is not possible to lie and call it ice cream.
Mr Dershowitz, and the rest of us, will some day take the stand in the same courtroom.
Before that day comes we may all take a moment to contemplate what Johnny Cochrane, Alan Dershowitz and their ilk have done to the practice of law in the Free World.
They have taken the phrase "innocent until proven guilty," which was intended as a noble aspiration to objectivity, and turned it into a get out of jail free card for murderers.
Damn them to hell.
She is known to the world as Sunny Von Bulow but I am reluctant to append the name of her husband Claus Von Bulow to hers because he is the man who was accused in two murder trials of injecting her with insulin in an attempt to kill her.
The lawyer Alan Dershowitz enabled Claus Von Bulow to beat the rap for murdering his wife.
Mr Dershowitz is mentioned in some but not all of the internet reportage of Sunny's death.
CNN quotes him asserting that he (Dershowitz) proved Claus Von Bulow did not murder her.
He proved no such thing.
But he won the court case.
And for defence lawyers that is enough.
For the rest of us it may not be.
Morally and from the point of view of human integrity, Mr Dershowitz stands on a par with Johnny Cochrane the lawyer who helped OJ Simpson beat his murder raps.
Johnny Cochrane is now answering directly to God for his actions in the OJ case, giving an account of himself before a Judge to whom it is not possible to lie and call it ice cream.
Mr Dershowitz, and the rest of us, will some day take the stand in the same courtroom.
Before that day comes we may all take a moment to contemplate what Johnny Cochrane, Alan Dershowitz and their ilk have done to the practice of law in the Free World.
They have taken the phrase "innocent until proven guilty," which was intended as a noble aspiration to objectivity, and turned it into a get out of jail free card for murderers.
Damn them to hell.
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