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...many as ten, 20 or 30 petitions from one man over a period of years," says San Francisco Federal Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli. Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions. Habeas corpus is "an important psychological right," argues Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, even though "the number of prisoners who succeed is infinitesimal." Nelson Kempsky of California's department of corrections agrees: "Increasing access to the courts has not made it more difficult to run prisons. In fact, it has served as a safety valve...
Bailey investigators went to work retracing Patty's 591-day trail from kidnap to capture. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who is helping with the Hearst legal strategy: "Bailey is virtually the only criminal lawyer I've met who has mastered the art of pretrial investigation." Once an investigator himself, Bailey has his team visit witnesses, get photographs, collect documents, visit locales of key events?all so they can "stuff my head with enough facts for when the action starts...
...United Nations has become an absolute pawn in the hands of the Arab countries," Alan M. Dershowitz, a law school professor, said last night...
...Dershowitz told 40 people at Burr Hall that the United Nations is "institutionally incapable of providing ovenhandedness" in Middle East affairs, and whatever lawful authority the United Nations has is therefore a "force for evil" because it legitimates injustice toward Israel...
...time to consider seriously whether the preservation of the United Nations is "on balance a good thing," Dershowitz said...