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...These are not civil libertarians who try to criticize the government for its over zealousness, but people who consider Demjanjuk a hero," says Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. "To single out Allan Ryan, who is one of the most decent, honorable men I've worked with, is just outrageous...
Certainly Pollard had commited crimes and deserved to serve time in jail. But life? As Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz writes in Chutzpah, the penalty of life imprisonment for acts of espionage is "rarely imposed even on those who spy for our enemies and never imposed on those who spy for our friends." Dershowitz points out that, at the time of Pollard's conviction, "the average prison sentence imposed on a defendant convicted of spying for a U.S. ally, like Israel, was less than five years...
...ever given an American spying for a U.S. ally. In addition, Pollard's wife, Anne--who has since divorced the jailed spy--faced two concurrent five-year sentences for being an accessory after the fact. She was released after spending more than three years in prison--more time, says Dershowitz, than any American ever spent in jail for a comparable crime...
Many say Weinberger, whose surname is more recognizably Jewish than Pollard's, singled out Pollard because of his own religious background. In his book, Dershowitz quotes a prominent Washington lawyer close to Weinberger who said that the former Defense Secretary felt "burdened by his name and his grandfather's religion" and that, in his dealings with the Pollard case, Weinberger "leaned over backwards to show that there is absolutely nothing Jewish about...
...letter submitted to the Journal, LawSchool Dean Robert C. Clark, Professor of Law AlanM. Dershowitz and Tyler Professor ofConstitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62 calledThernstrom's depiction "a wildly inaccurateportrayal of life at our School...