Alan Dershowitz Says Zimmerman Prosecutor Went On '40-Minute Rant,' Threatened To Sue Harvard

[Purveyor]

By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel

Famed attorney and legal commentator Alan Dershowitz has been one of the harshest critics of State Attorney Angela Corey's approach to prosecuting George Zimmerman. According to Dershowitz, Corey is none too pleased.

In a column posted on Newsmax.com yesterday, Dershowitz says Corey called Harvard Law School, where he is a professor, and "proceeded to engage in a 40-minute rant, during which she threatened to sue Harvard Law School, to try to get me disciplined by the Bar Association and to file charges against me for libel and slander."

When the school explained Dershowitz has a right to express his opinions, Corey "persisted in her nonstop whining," he writes, "claiming that she is prohibited from responding to my attacks by the rules of professional responsibility."

Dershowitz has been critical of Corey since she charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder in April. He says the probable cause affidavit she filed to support that charge omitted key facts and contained "half truths."

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[DURHAM D]

1. Dershowitz is so last century.

[TheWraith]

2. "In a column posted on Newsmax.com"

Yeah, I stopped reading right there. Fuck Dershowitz for being a whiny baby.

[exboyfil]

3. Whatever side you fall on in the debate about Zimmerman's

guilt. If she did call Harvard and rant about Dershowitz's column, then we have a real problem. I happen to think, without knowing additional details, that Murder was a stretch (it looks like a mirror image of the Dooley case to me and he was charged with manslaughter). The charging document used the mother's voice identification for the cries of help?? Now I can understand an overcharge to get a plea.

[TheWraith]

5. I don't trust Dersh's characterization of anything.

A calm phone call to explain her points is easy to exaggerate into "a 40 minute rant."

[quakerboy]

16. Whatever side you fall on RE zimmerman

You should still be able to recognize that a basic requirement to participate in Newsmax is the desire to lie for no reason. Not the ability or willingness to lie, the desire, the drive to lie.

Anyone so deranged as to post there should have every other statement they make in any other context questioned and independently verified before even taken as having the possibility of having any correlation to reality, much less being given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to be true.

[Blue_Tires]

13. I'm convinced that the real Dershowitz is dead and

Ron Silver just decided to assume his identity full-time...

Has *anyone* seen Ron Silver recently??

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. Is it just me

or is anyone else getting sick of Dershowitz?

[Mairead]

7. It's just you

Most of us already got sick of him years ago. You're well behind the fair

[Sekhmets Daughter]

12. Oh well, better

late than never.

[Bake]

9. Yeah, I got sick of Douche-o-witz long ago.

He's only interested in the civil rights of one group, not of all minorities.

Bake

[sinkingfeeling]

6. So the Orlando paper prints something from a Newsmax.com column as news?

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Remember the days ...

When attorneys/legal scholars gained and maintained their reputations through good legal work, and would have refused to comment publically on the legal work of another attorney, but more, would have been embarrassed to see their name posted in tabloid "news"?

Oh ... Those were the days!

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Dershowitz should know about threatening universities over their faculty

That's his specialty.

[Mairead]

14. Precisely

His interference at DePaul was despicable.

[EFerrari]

15. Seriously. He must be pissed because someone else is signing his tune. n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. Crawl back in your hole, torture man.