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Proudly overzealous, Alan Dershowitz fights the "cheat elite...
...last week to hear himself sentenced to 30 years in prison, he had a new lawyer on his team, a slight, bespectacled fellow with reddish brown, frizzy hair, seen by some as a cross between Woody Allen and Bozo the Clown. But Von Bülow knows that Alan Dershowitz, 43, is no joke. He got the Harvard law professor out of bed at 7 a.m. six weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal law, but so are others. What made Dershowitz the right...
Devils or not, Dershowitz has been called into cases, often on appeal, by a long list of people in serious trouble. Among them are Nursing Home Operator Rabbi Bernard Bergman ("the meanest man in New York," suggested the Village Voice), Patricia Hearst, F. Lee Bailey, a few alleged Mafiosi, Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and Deep Throat Star Harry Reems. Now, in addition to helping Von Bülow, Dershowitz is likely to take on the appeal of Jack Henry Abbott, the inmate-writer who was convicted of manslaughter after Author Norman Mailer and others had helped to get him paroled...
...Dershowitz readily concedes that few of his clients are innocent. He writes: "I do not apologize for (or feel guilty about) helping to let a murderer go free-even though I realize that someday one of my clients may go out and kill again." To him, that is an unavoidable byproduct of the "process of challenge needed to maintain the freedoms we have." In pursuit of this goal, Dershowitz will put the government on trial, trick witnesses, use the press-in short, he will try anything right up to the edge of being unethical. "I am proud to be regarded...
...Dershowitz said he supports Redgrave's right to perform with the BSO, but he added. "Not all victims of the First Amendment are heroes. "Dershowitz said that Redgrave is a strong advocate of censorship and blacklisting...