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Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz last night refused to confirm reports that he will represent former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson on his appeal of a rape conviction...
When an Indianapolis jury found Tyson guilty of rape and two counts of criminal sexual-deviate conduct last week, the verdict packed a wallop. For boxing, it meant that the sport would lose its top attraction for the next few years; a Tyson fight with the current champ, Evander Holyfield, could have grossed $100 million. On more profound and intimate levels, the conviction brought hope of legal redress to sexual victims. Says Lynn Hecht Schafran, a New York City attorney with the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund: "The case provides a basis for people to go to the police...
Another pal, real estate peddler Donald Trump, last week proposed that Tyson buy his way out of jail by fighting again and donating his take to Indiana rape centers. This scenario will not unfold, even if Tyson could find an opponent (Holyfield, says his promoter, Dan Duva, will not fight Tyson). Bert Randolph Sugar, publisher of Boxing Illustrated, gives three reasons: "The state athletic commissions will lift his license. No hotel chain will sponsor it. And the event would have no advertising. You just can't see the announcer saying, 'And in this corner, the convicted rapist . . . Mike Tyson...
...athletes. "But he was probably not the right choice to bring into Indianapolis. They certainly needed a strong local female counsel. A woman could have handled parts of the examination -- the questions about panty shields -- which are much more sensitive for a male attorney to be hitting a proposed rape victim with...
Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz will represent former heavy-weight champion Mike Tyson in an appeal of his rape conviction earlier this month, ABC News reported last night...