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Regardless of defense counsel's error in referring to the search as a forensic search, the prosecution would also have elicited the fact that Bierenbaum lied to Caruana about the search. Later in his summation, he returned to the drug-related disappearance theory: Segalas-they did a little bit, what they thought was cocaine that was left in the house. In September 1986 Hope Martin, an investigator from the District Attorney's office, was assigned to investigate Katz's disappearance. Defense counsel did not move to dismiss the indictment for undue delay. Look for the RHIO icon for authorized RHIO participants. Given the seriousness of the charge, the circumstantial nature of the evidence, and no evidence of any improper motive on the part of the prosecution, the motion had no chance of success. Robert Bierenbaum - Wikipedia In the 1920's, whiskey traffickers lived among the Lutheran churches and businesses. No one, other than Bierenbaum, reported seeing Katz after July 6. The conviction leaves the people of Minot with a question. His anger at his wife. Bierenbaum lists nine errors that he contends are objectively unreasonable: (1) failing to move to dismiss the indictment due to pre-trial delay; (2) conceding that Katz died on July 7, 1985; (3) opening the door to testimony and argument that Dr. Bierenbaum and his lawyer refused to consent to a forensic search of his apartment; (4) failing to call two witnesses who allegedly would have supported his claim that Katz left the apartment on the morning of July 7; (5) failing to cross-examine effectively a witness who minimized his use of cocaine with Katz; (6) failing to object to the admission of the videotaped demonstration of the prosecution's theory of how Bierenbaum disposed of his wife's body; (7) failing to move for a trial order of dismissal on the grounds of insufficient evidence of the element of intent to kill; (8) failing to make a timely objection to improper remarks in summation; (9) failing to request a jury charge on jurisdiction. Surgery, Internal Medicine. Is this you? Robert Bierenbaum, a former plastic surgeon who was convicted of murdering his wife in 2000, finally confessed to killing her and throwing her body out of an airplane after more than three decades of maintaining his innocence. At 4:30 p.m. he was already in New Jersey, flying his rented airplane. 2120, 2008 WL 515035 (S.D.N.Y. Gail Katz and Robert Bierenbaum were married in August 1982. The rule applies with equal force whether the state-law ground is substantive or procedural. Lee v. Kemna, 534 U.S. 362, 375 (2002). He told the detective assigned to investigate the case that he had last seen his wife on July 7 at approximately 11 a.m., and that she had left the apartment to get some sun in Central Park. Dr. Yvette Feis, Katz's former professor and friend, testified that Katz told her she was looking for other sexual partners.