Bierenbaum faults defense counsel for failing to impeach Segalas with his prior statements, claiming that this damaged the defense theory that Katz's drug usage and risky behavior may have led to her disappearance. Leave to appeal to the New York Court of Appeals was denied on March 10, 2003. Katz told her that she was looking for an apartment and that she was going to tell her husband that weekend that she was leaving. Martin learned that Bierenbaum was a licensed pilot. Failure to cross-examine witness Anthony Segalas concerning Katz's use of cocaine. Many of our partners in care are also providing services on site, just as they did before. Although the delay was substantial, Bierenbaum suffered no prejudice, and he was not incarcerated prior to trial. He said, 'I just have a lot on my mind.' He did not find anything. The trial court permitted this testimony as background evidence of the state of the marriage and Katz's state of mind, and Bierenbaum's motive, intent and identity. In the late 1800's, the railroad lured transients to the town's many brothels and saloons. '', See the article in its original context from. Thus, Bierenbaum's challenge to the admission of Katz's statements must be evaluated under Roberts. Bierenbaum gave detailed statements of his activities to both investigating officers in the days following Katz's disappearance. CALABRESI, Circuit Judge, filed a concurring opinion. The Appellate Division ruled that the statements bore numerous hallmarks of reliability: She was speaking spontaneously; she repeated the statements separately to various people in her life; her statements about the troubled side of their marriage were a natural consequence of corroborated facts about their marriage; she was, by all indications, in good mental health; there appears no reason for her to have fabricated the matters she discussed at the time of her utterances; and her statements largely concerned private matters that some would be embarrassed or otherwise reluctant to disclose. 06 Civ. Image Credit: Stephanie Youngblood/ ABC News 20/20. United States v. Langella, 776 F.2d 1078, 1083 (2d Cir.1985) (citing Lovasco, 431 U.S. at 790); accord United States v. Cornielle, 171 F.3d 748 (2d Cir.1999). This was the same year that a partial female body washed ashore in Staten Island, New York. N E W  Y O R K, Oct. 24, 2000 -- Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, a plastic surgeon who wascharged with killing his wife 15 years ago and dropping her bodyinto the ocean from an airplane, was convicted today ofsecond-degree murder. She heard nothing more. (quoting Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 413 (2000)). amend. Albany Medical College ; To show ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), Bierenbaum must (1) demonstrate that his counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and (2) affirmatively prove prejudice arising from counsel's allegedly deficient representation. Brown v. Greene, 577 F.3d 107, 110 (2d Cir.2009) (quoting Carrion v. Smith, 549 F.3d 583, 588 (2d Cir.2008)). Today, local rumor has it, the federal witness protection program relocates people here. Bierenbaum was charged with murder in the second degree in an indictment returned December 8, 1999. But his exotic skills and civic spirit soon won over the town: he published a bagel recipe in the local newspaper, read Hebrew amid the 20-some congregants of the tiny clapboard synagogue, even flew members of the Rotary Club to Mexico in his twin-engine Comanche to give free medical care to orphans. Former NY surgeon admits killing wife, throwing body from airplane in 1985 (NCD) (NCD) NEW YORK Dr. Robert Bierenbaum maintained his innocence in 2000 as he was tried and convicted of killing . Bierenbaum told Feis that the cats had fouled the rug and that he was having it cleaned. The petition was denied on March 9, 2006. She should have made her appointments, she should have been where she said she would be and she could have come home but she didn't and that's why we can tell you that she is dead. ''I have no idea what you've done in the past, you have no idea what I've done,'' Mr. Hussey concluded last week, after the verdict, seated in a restaurant near Minot International Airport, which has one baggage carousel. This conclusion was neither contrary to nor an unreasonable application of the Supreme Court's Confrontation Clause precedent in 2002 and 2003. These included Ellen Schwartz, Francesca Beale, Katz's therapist Dr. Sybil Baran, Anthony Segalas and Kenneth Feiner. Baran also noted that Katz-Bierenbaum had been apartmenthunting, had gotten a manicure and had bought birth control devicesjust before she vanished. Bierenbaum told O'Malley that the marriage was in bad shape and that both of them were in therapy to attempt to improve their relationship. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The location you tried did not return a result. '', Dr. Williams thinks that, regardless of whether or not Dr. Bierenbaum is guilty, he has suffered enough and should be allowed out on a work-release program to continue treating patients. The motion was denied on September 6, 2005, and leave to appeal was denied on January 12, 2006. Never, Bibb told the jurors shortly before they begandeliberations, did Bierenbaum, who has a pilots license, evermention that he had spent nearly two hours flying an airplane theafternoon after his wife was last seen. Counsel accepted the offer and the trial judge instructed the jury: Let me also state that the defendant had no legal obligation to allow the police to search his apartment at any point, but-and certain evidence came out concerning a search of his apartment. McCullough testified that Katz told her that her husband had gotten angry at her and choked her because she had been smoking a cigarette. It was not objectively unreasonable to do so. holds a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Doctorate of Osteopathy from the University of New England. He told Karnofsky that he had gotten into an argument with his wife one day, that she went to cool off in Central Park, that she had been seen one time around the area of Central Park, but had never been seen again. Baran testified that she never told Bierenbaumthat. In May 1989 a torso found washed up on a beach in Staten Island was determined by x-ray comparison to be Katz. He stated that he nevertheless attempted to look for any evidence that a crime had been committed in the apartment, that he discovered no such evidence, but that he had not conducted a detailed forensic search. According to his affidavit, on the Sunday before Katz's parents and the police inquired about her, he relieved the doorman, Edgar Rivera, at approximately 11:30 a.m. At that time he saw Katz leave the front entrance of the building wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Bierenbaum called her therapist and others on that day asking if they had seen her. Only later would he learn what had happened. 2023 Rochester Health, Currently accepting new patients at this location. Counsel suggested in his opening statement that You will also learn that she had a drug issue and you will learn at least one of the lovers Gail Katz Bierenbaum took behind Dr. Bierenbaum's back was also someone she shared drugs with, and you will learn it from his own testimony. Trial Tr. Prior to MultiCare, Biernbaum was Rochester Regional Health System's chief architect for all Epic solutions and in charge of informatics for five hospitals and more than 100 ambulatory sites. The United States Supreme Court decisions in Crawford and Davis v. Washington, 547 U.S. 813 (2006), confined the scope of the Confrontation Clause to testimonial statements. He didn't stop when he knew he was hurting her. provider will be able to view your information so they can provide the most informed care and treatment. The police report also stated that Katz phoned Segalas in June 1985 and asked him to examine some cocaine she had bought, because she thought she had received a short amount. On cross-examination Davis admitted that he had told an investigator for the defense that the woman he'd seen was tall and statuesque, and explained that he had confused his description of the missing woman by likening her to two different women, one tall with her face and one short with her body. Dr. Kenneth Feiner developed a romantic relationship with Katz in the months prior to her disappearance. Bierenbaum told Katz's friend Ellen Schwartz that he had spoken with Katz's therapist Dr. Baran, who had told him that Katz was very depressed and she was concerned that Katz might hurt herself. The Appellate Division did not explicitly address Bierenbaum's confrontation clause claim,1 and the Court of Appeals denied leave to appeal without explanation. The motion was denied. The faculty-student ratio at . Proc. A trial court may issue a trial order of dismissal as to any count of an indictment on the ground that the trial evidence is not legally sufficient to establish the offense charged. N.Y.Crim. Think about the defendant. 2. About Robert Bierenbaum . An inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration testified that in his opinion a pilot could singlehandedly dispose of something from the plane without a great deal of difficulty. Bibb said Bierenbaum put his wifes corpse in a large duffelbag, drove it to a New Jersey airport, took the body up in a Cessna172 and dropped it into the ocean somewhere between Montauk, onLong Island, and Cape May, N.J. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. All rights reserved. If you wanted to start a new life, free of reproach or inquiry, this remote prairie town of 35,500 might be the place. 2254(e)(1); see Drake v. Portuondo, 553 F .3d 230, 239 (2d Cir.2009). ''At first it was just, 'That guy is nothing but strange,' '' said Curt Hussey, operator of the town's private flight school at Pietsch's airfield. [T]he question of whether a federal constitutional question was sufficiently asserted in state courts to form the basis of a federal habeas petition is a question of federal law which the federal courts must resolve for themselves. Acosta v. Artuz, 575 F.3d 177, 185 (2d Cir.2009) (quoting DiSimone v. Phillips, 461 F.3d 181, 189 (2d Cir.2006)). You watch as it literally squeeze[s] the life out of another human being. A few days before she disappeared, Katz told DeCesare that she had met someone in whom she was interested, and she wondered if DeCesare thought it would be all right if she brought him up to the apartment when Bierenbaum wasn't there. Bierenbaum had contacted O'Malley on July 10 to inquire about the progress of the investigation. The defendant and his attorney stopped the cops from doing a complete forensic search on the apartment. Bierenbaum had graduated from medical school in 1978, and was a surgical resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Bierenbaum stated that he had come home from work at approximately 5 p.m. on Friday evening, that they went to a movie about 8 p.m. and returned about midnight. Mr. Berg recalls it as the most remarkable experience of his life, one that ''fulfills a person's reason for being here.''. The defense, knowing that the alternate scenarios for Gail Katz's death had little in the way of factual support, apparently chose to cast all of the scenarios-the prosecution's included-as merely theories, which could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. He had blocked the police from searching their Manhattan apartment. At the close of the prosecution's case, defense counsel move[d] for a trial order of dismissal of the single count of the indictment because the People failed to establish every element of the crime charged[,] and this case particularly in its circumstantial nature is insufficient to go forward for a jury resolution. Trial Tr. About three weeks after Katz disappeared, Bierenbaum began an affair with Karen Caruana, a nurse educator at Maimonides Medical Center where Bierenbaum was a surgical resident. The jury also learned that a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, the airplane that Bierenbaum rented, is a stable, easy-to-handle four passenger aircraft. Now, you know what his intent was.Trial Tr. He returned from New Jersey at approximately midnight. at 583. . You'll find that we're more than just a clinic or a service provider. Defense counsel decided not to call Alvarez. Looking back, people see sinister clues in the fact that his socks were mismatched, his airplane a mess. See Davis, 547 U.S. at 824 (holding that limiting the Confrontation Clause to testimonial hearsay is clearly reflected in the text of the constitutional provision); United States v. Feliz, 467 F.3d 227, 232 (2d Cir.2006) ([A]fter Crawford and Davis, the inquiry under the Confrontation Clause is whether the statement at issue is testimonial.); accord United States v. Williams, 506 F.3d 151, 156 (2d Cir.2007). Gail Katz and Robert Bierenbaum were married in August 1982. Given that the Appellate Division reviewed the claim that the evidence was legally insufficient to prove that Bierenbaum intended to cause Katz's death, he cannot claim that counsel was ineffective in failing to preserve the issue for appeal. They confronted Dr. Bierenbaum on the steps of the Trinity clinic, but he invoked his right to counsel. Sherman would have testified that she believed Katz left the apartment after the door slammed. ''It's the loss of his life and the good he does to help other people. Darrel Williams, a prominent eye surgeon and one of Dr. Bierenbaum's closest friends here, recalled of that morning, ''He looked a little haggard and seemed to be rushing around.'' His anger at his wife. On Saturday, July 6, 1985, Katz kept a follow-up appointment with her gynecologist, and made a further appointment in December. Please try again. Katz told DeCesare that she had gone out on the terrace of their apartment to smoke a cigarette, where he confronted her and choked her. Surgery, Internal Medicine. Davis had been in a bagel shop in Manhattan on Second Avenue in the 80's on the afternoon of July 7, 1985, and he noticed an attractive woman wearing a distinctive t-shirt with a non-English word on it. Segalas testified that Katz told him she was in a very unhappy marriage, that she was afraid of her husband and that he had tried to strangle her once. Bierenbaum claims that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at trial, and that the admission at trial of numerous out-of-court statements made by the victim violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. See Bierenbaum, 748 N.Y.S.2d at 589. ''We're from North Dakota and we trust people,'' said Mike Berg, a retired pharmacist and former head of the Rotary Club, who flew to Mexico with Dr. Bob. He is a native Rochesterian with roots in Pittsford and Victor. When Alayne Katz accused him of killing her sister, thedefendant called his missing wife a tramp and said he believedshe had run off with another man. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. The trial judge denied the motion, but offered to tell the jury that Bierenbaum had no legal obligation to allow a search of his apartment, that he had a right to act on advice of counsel, and that the jury should draw no negative inference from that; but that in fact the apartment was not fully searched. Given that the testimony was independently admissible, and the trial court gave a curative instruction in connection with the improper closing argument, defense counsel's mistaken reference to a forensic search did not open the door to prejudicial comments. Phone: (585) 754-7858,(585) 545-7200. The things you loved about AIDS Care have not changed as a result of our name change. As of 2002 when his claim was adjudicated on the merits, and 2003 when his conviction became final, Ohio v. Roberts governed his claim. On October 17, 1986 she learned that Bierenbaum had rented an airplane from Mac Dan Aircraft Rental at Caldwell Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey on July 7, 1985, the day Katz disappeared. If you are uninsured or underinsured, or need a referral to a doctor or dentist, call our Affordable Health Line at 585-328-7000. The passage quoted above demonstrates that the Appellate Division found particularized guarantees of trustworthiness in the challenged statements. Bierenbaum had graduated from medical school in 1978, and was a surgical resident at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Failure to move for dismissal on the ground of insufficient evidence of specific intent to kill. Dr. Leigh McCullough, Katz's employer in the fall of 1983, noticed bruises on Katz's neck one day. The respondents argued this position below, but on further review have withdrawn their argument, agreeing with Bierenbaum that he presented his constitutional claim in his letter brief submitted to the New York Court of Appeals on December 10, 2002. If the jury concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that Bierenbaum committed the murder, the jurors would not have harbored a reasonable doubt that it occurred in the apartment. Failure to request charge on territorial jurisdiction. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The district court determined that Bierenbaum failed to exhaust his state court remedies with regard to his Confrontation Clause claim, finding that he did not argue the claim in his application for leave to appeal to the New York Court of Appeals. Doctor of Osteopathic (DO) In a state that averages two people per square mile, it is more important to embrace newcomers than to fuss with details about the past. Bierenbaum's petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court was denied on October 6, 2003. Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine. The email address cannot be subscribed. A state court decision involves an unreasonable application of clearly established Supreme Court precedent if it correctly identifies the governing legal principle but unreasonably applies or unreasonably refuses to extend that principle to the facts of a particular case. Bierenbaum argues that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a jury charge to the effect that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime occurred within the state of New York. But he chokes her much harder than he'd done when she was only having a cigarette. We're a community of medical and social service professionals who meet patients and clients in a healing and affirming environment where they can feel supported, cared for, and cared about. Dr. Yvette Feis, Katz's former professor and friend, testified that Katz told her she was looking for other sexual partners. ANGELA ABRAHAM. 28 U.S.C. Robert Bierenbaum (born July 22, 1955) is an American former plastic surgeon and convicted murderer. vol. All this means that the decision of the district court is properly affirmed. He called Katz's mother to see if she had heard from Katz, and went to bed. 4. Francesca Beale, a former employer, testified that in a telephone conversation in 1983, Katz said that her husband had a terrible temper, that she was afraid of him. He described her to the jury as deeply tanned, about five foot one, with a well-developed body. We're a team that goes into neighborhoods working to stop the spread of HIV through education, prevention, and testing events. The evidence at trial was set forth in detail in the district court's February 25, 2008 opinion, and we recount below only the evidence necessary to resolve the issues presented on appeal. Dr. Robert Bierenbaum had a second motive to murder his wife - she was threatening to expose him and his cardiologist father as Medicaid scammers, a witness told jurors yesterday. Katz had an affair with Anthony Segalas, an investment banker, during the summer of 1984 and the spring of 1985. If the jury harbored a reasonable doubt concerning Bierenbaum's guilt, an instruction on jurisdiction would not have assisted the defense. He was awaiting trial at his parents' home in East Orange, N.J., while his wife and daughter were in Pittsburgh. Katz told her that the night before she took her Graduate Record Exam, Bierenbaum choked her to unconsciousness because she smoked a cigarette. He told the detective that he remained at home until approximately 5:30 p.m., when he left for New Jersey. Bierenbaum told Dalsass that he had awakened at approximately 9:30 Sunday morning, that Katz had received a telephone call from an acquaintance that disappointed her, and that she left at about 11 a.m. after an argument, telling him that she intended to go to Central Park to get some sun. In discussing the evidence he also stated. In 1998 the investigation was reopened, and the body was exhumed and determined by DNA comparison not to be Katz. 3. 2254 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. His wife had decided to leave medicine and begin law school about 200 miles away in Grand Forks, N.D., where she moved, creating a hectic commuter marriage. NEW YORK Dr. Robert Bierenbaum maintained his innocence in 2000 as he was tried and convicted of killing his first wife 15 years before. Few questioned Dr. Bob, as they called him, who was convicted last week of murdering his first wife. This limited search was conducted on September 30; nevertheless at that time Dalsass looked around the apartment to see if he could detect any evidence that a crime had been committed there. Had the defense gotten Segalas to admit that he and Katz used cocaine on several occasions, the defense suggestion that she may have been killed by drug dealers would still have been plagued by lack of evidence, as the state court noted. While they have . He requested an evidentiary hearing. When the trial court's attention was drawn to this error, it refused to order a mistrial, but offered an instruction, admonishing the jury that it could draw no negative inference from an individual's acting on advice of counsel. The probable truth, Bibb said, is that Bierenbaum strangled hiswife in their Upper East Side Manhattan apartment after she toldhim she was leaving their loveless and sometimes violent marriagefor another man. He also devoted time to charitable . Assuming that Katz's statements were admitted for the truth of the matters asserted,2 they meet the Roberts standard for admissibility. Over defense objection eleven witnesses-friends, relatives, colleagues and Katz's therapist-were permitted to testify about conversations they had with Katz between 1983 and 1985 in which she talked about the state of her marriage, her fear of Bierenbaum's temper, his controlling behavior, his threats, and an argument in 1983 during which he choked her to the point of unconsciousness. We affirm. 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. Dalsass contacted several individuals whose names he had obtained from Bierenbaum or Katz's family who might have information about Katz. Although there was no evidence to that effect, defense counsel did not object. Rochester, NY - Trillium Health, a community health center with an emphasis on affordable health care and located in downtown Rochester, announced the appointment of Robert "Rob" Biernbaum, D.O. Ive waited a very,very long time for this day. Law 470.05[2]. Detective O'Malley testified that in their first conversation Bierenbaum told him that a doorman named Edgar had seen Katz leave the building on July 7. Detective Virgilio Dalsass from the 19th precinct, where Bierenbaum and Katz resided, and Detective Thomas O'Malley from the Missing Persons Bureau were assigned to investigate the case. Hirsch also stated that a body could be disarticulated at the joints, a simple process that someone trained in anatomy could accomplish in ten minutes. Bierenbaum, 44, was charged Tuesday with murdering Katz, loading her body into his twin-engine plane and flying out over the Atlantic to dump her in a watery grave. Although Gail's family believed he was responsible for the disappearance, the police could not build a case for a long time as they lacked the body and concrete . Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Grand Forks, ND 58201 . Depending on your income and household size, we can help you qualify for Child Health Plus, Family Health Plus, Medicaid, Healthy New York, EPIC, or the RPCN Community Health Care Plan. Consistently absent from any of his accounts of his activities on Sunday, July 7, 1985 was the fact that he rented an airplane in New Jersey that afternoon and went flying. It is possible. People here were on their guard at first because he dressed differently, had longer hair and a ''weird intensity'' about him. Nontestimonial statements therefore do not implicate the Confrontation Clause. 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