Reversal of Fortune; Inside the von Bulow Case.

In 1982, von Bülow was tried for the attempted murder of his wife Sunny. The main evidence was that Sunny had low blood sugar, but a blood test showed a high insulin level. The needle was used against von Bülow in court, with the prosecution alleging that he used it and a vial of insulin to try and kill his wife. The discovery of these items became the focal point of von Bülow's appeal. At the first trial, von Bülow was found guilty & sentenced to 30 years in prison; he appealed, hiring Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to represent him. Dershowitz's campaign to acquit von Bülow was assisted by Jim Cramer, then a Harvard Law School student. Dershowitz and his team focused on the discovery of the bag containing the syringes & insulin. Sunny's family had hired a private investigator to look in to the coma. The private investigator, Eddie Lambert was told by several family members & a maid that Claus had recently been locking a closet in the Newport home that previously was always kept open. Lambert & Kuh hired a locksmith to drive to the mansion, with the intention of picking the closet lock to find what the closet contained. They had lied to the locksmith and told him that one of them owned the house. When the three arrived, the locksmith insisted they try again to find the key, & after some searching, Kuh found a key in Claus von Bülow's desk that fitted the closet. At this point, the locksmith was paid for the trip & left before the closet was actually opened, though the men would later recant that version and insist that the locksmith was present when they entered the closet. It was in the closet that the main evidence against Claus von Bülow was found. In 1984 the conviction was reversed based on the fact that the main evidence was gained illegally, by someone who may have stood to gain from von Bülow's conviction. In 1985, after a second trial, von Bülow was found not guilty on all charges.