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Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said yesterday he plans to appear before the Governor's Council today to raise questions about what he termed "religious and ethnic" bias on the part of a state judicial nominee...
...Dershowitz, a high-profile defense attorney and civil libertarian, said in a letter he would ask the council to question nominee Paul Mahoney--now the chief aide to Senate President William M. Bulger--under oath about alleged comments concerning Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate...
...Dershowitz said that at the height of the State Street controversy, Mahoney asked an unnamed Boston Globe reporter of Irish descent why he would believe "a man with a name like Silverglate instead of men with names like Bulger or Mahoney...
...letter, Dershowitz also asserted that Mahoney intentionally spread false rumors about Silverglate in an effort to undermine his case...
...Dershowitz said yesterday that he had not accused Mahoney of anti-Semitism, but that he simply wants Mahoney either to admit or to deny the charge of bias...