Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview on Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) yesterday, Dershowitz said that his comments about this so-called "testilying" were misconstrued...
...School Professor and O.J. Simpson defender Alan M. Dershowitz qualified his previous comments about police engaging in "testilying" yesterday...
...discussing the Simpson trial last week, Dershowitz said that police officers are taught to lie on the witness stand to ensure "a good arrest...
These familiar issues were on the table at a recent Law School forum. Listening to panelists Paul Cassell, Alan Dershowitz, and Wendy Kaminer, one might have thought that the discussion was a vital one, that capital punishment was still a topic of active political discourse. In response to Dershowitz's claims that the application of the death penalty was systematically racist, Cassell quoted the latest statistics; Kaminer reassuringly asserted that the issues at hand were "empirical," not "political" questions. The terms of the debate, the panelists suggested, were factual, academic: they should be approached by study and analysis and acted...
...parole is offered as an alternative to show that Cassell's argument was naive in the extreme. Politicians' effective use of the death penalty as a symbol for getting tough on crime shows that it, like abortion, is a hotbutton issue, one to which people respond from the gut. Dershowitz's earnest attempts to separate the system of implementation from the death penalty itself is useful for academics but probably irrelevant in the political arena...