Word: dershowitz
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Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said yesterday he plans to appear before the Governor's Council today to raise questions about what he termed "religious and ethnic" bias on the part of a state judicial nominee...
...Dershowitz, a high-profile defense attorney and civil libertarian, said in a letter he would ask the council to question nominee Paul Mahoney--now the chief aide to Senate President William M. Bulger--under oath about alleged comments concerning Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate...
...Dershowitz said that at the height of the State Street controversy, Mahoney asked an unnamed Boston Globe reporter of Irish descent why he would believe "a man with a name like Silverglate instead of men with names like Bulger or Mahoney...
...accused of attempting to murder Sunny with insulin injections, leaving her in a coma from which she has not emerged, the case yielded reams of tabloid tattle. Twice he was tried in Rhode Island courts: first found guilty and then, when he was defended by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and won a new trial on appeal, acquitted...
...Elon Dershowitz said last night he was recently asked by convicted hotel magnate Leona Helmsly, his father's client, if he will make a movie about her trial...