Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz will be part of the legal team defending football star O.J. Simpson from charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend...
...arguments based on black rage are troubling because, unlike battered women who kill their abusive husbands, defendants in such cases would not need to produce a record of specific life- threatening conditions -- just social and environmental causes. "Crime is not a function of group characteristics," says attorney Alan Dershowitz. "It is an individual phenomenon that must be treated on an individual basis." Asks University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein: "Anytime you fire a black worker, is he entitled to murder you?" Furthermore, Grier cautions that what he wrote about in 1968 was "not a diagnosis" or a psychosis, simply...
...Dershowitz disputed Horwitz' comment...
...Mort's criticism is that [Breyer] is notpolitically correct," Dershowitz said. "Mort isthe standard bearer for political correctness andthe Harvard Law School and I think his views haveto be taken with a grain of salt...
...lawyer's lawyer--a brilliant andpragmatic legal scholar and practitioner and anice guy," said Dershowitz...