When we last saw Alan (Claus von Bugle) Dershowitz in the local press, he was passing judgment on a judicial nomination.
Alan Dershowitz rules in favor of Sarah Palin as TV judge
There’s been some guffawing about Sarah Palin’s prospective job as a TV judge — the former Republican vice presidential candidate has a production deal to preside over a courtroom a la “Judge Judy” — but Alan Dershowitz, for one, thinks it’s a great idea.
“There are judges all over the country who make Sarah Palin look like Oliver Wendell Holmes,” the Harvard Law professor emeritus told us last week. “The point is we have an elevated — and false — impression of how judges behave in the courtroom. So many of them scream and yell and are abusive.
Not Dersh’s most judicious opinion, eh? But the Star Bucks Barrister is faring better in today’s Boston Globe.
Sex allegations against Dershowitz called mistake
Two plaintiffs’ lawyers admitted Friday that they made “a mistake” when they accused famed attorney Alan Dershowitz of having sex with their client when she was a minor.
The admission came in a joint statement released by the lawyers, Paul G. Cassell and Bradley J. Edwards, and
Dershowitz to settle defamation suits the two sides filed against one another in state court in Florida.
“Edwards and Cassell acknowledge that it was a mistake to have filed sexual misconduct accusations against Dershowitz,” the statement said. “[A]nd the sexual misconduct accusations made in all public filings … are hereby withdrawn. Dershowitz also withdraws his accusations that Edwards and Cassell acted unethically.”
Glad we got that sorted. Crosstown, however, the Boston Herald reported nothing of the sort.
Hey, Dersh – so sue them, yeah?
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