The next morning he went to work, and that evening reported Katz missing. Dr. Janet Chollet Bierenbaum, the second wife of Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, supported him as he faced trial in the murder of his first wife, Gail Katz Bierenbaum, according to news coverage from his court appearances. ''The jury was not divided,'' said Jason Hauf, 32, who served on the panel of seven men and five women. Bierenbaum was very controlling and at one point a neighbor said Katz told him she didnt feel comfortable at home. See Bierenbaum v. New York, 540 U.S. 821 (2003). IV, 3194, 3227-28. She stated that he told her this before the end of September. When we were finally put through to his extension, we got a voice-mail message and Schragis returned our call promptly, telling us that hes keeping busy and feeling great working for the company. Following the close of evidence, counsel move[d] to dismiss the indictment on the basis that the People have failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt and to the legal standard required for the case to go to the jury. Id. Shallet Annah. But last week, a Manhattan jury found Dr. Bierenbaum guilty of killing his first wife and dumping her body from an airplane. Sam and Joel reach a new level of intimacy. Failure to move for dismissal on the ground of insufficient evidence of specific intent to kill. Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South St. Chollet submitted a letter asking a judge for leniency in Bierenbaums case as part of a 60-page memo in which friends and family members spoke about Bierenbaums work and character, according to the New York Post. Furthermore, the statements were made mostly to those close to her, in contexts completely devoid of coercion, not in response to anyone's questioning, nor under circumstances at all suggestive of any attempt to curry anyone's favor. Chollet At that declaration, the victim's older sister, Alayne Katz, a lawyer who has waged a 15-year crusade to bring Dr. Bierenbaum to trial, yelled ''Yes,'' then put her head in the lap of her younger brother, Steven, and sobbed. In May 1989 a torso found washed up on a beach in Staten Island was determined by x-ray comparison to be Katz. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Katz cooked steaks that night and they had a romantic candlelight dinner. Three times Rowley loaded a bag containing one hundred ten pounds of sand and rice into the plane, flew out over the ocean, and ejected the bag, each time performing a different maneuver to get the bag out of the plane. 2254 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Regardless of whether counsel's performance was deficient in failing to secure Sherman's testimony, Bierenbaum cannot show prejudice. Getting ready to learn! I thought the demonstration with the airplane was extremely effective, probably one of the critical moments of the case, said Leslie Crocker Snyder, the judge who presided over the case. But the funkmaster went over his allotted time and ignored repeated requests to wrap up his act. VI. Now we have a body to bury. His upcoming parole hearing will determine whether he will be released. Bierenbaum said that she had gone out earlier in the day and had not returned to their apartment. Although there was no evidence to that effect, defense counsel did not object. ''But he was just like, 'Anything to do to help.' In 2000, a grand jury indicted Bierenbaum for second-degree murder. In the 1920's, whiskey traffickers lived among the Lutheran churches and businesses. Annah Chollet We addressed this point in connection with counsel's mistake in referring to a forensic examination in his opening statement, and found no prejudice.