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FREEDMAN: Thank you, your Honor. I am here as an ACLU volunteer attorney to represent Mr. Dershowitz because we are concerned with the implications that he might be guilty of some impropriety in this case. I would like to make some observations about the merits of that issue...
...following is the complete and official transcript of a hearing held in New York City last Monday in the chambers of Federal District Court Judge Arnold Bauman to determine whether Bauman would recommend disciplinary hearings be instituted against Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law. Bauman threatened to impose discipline on Dershowitz on July 3 after Dershowitz charged a U.S. attorney had "deliberately" withheld evidence from the Supreme Court...
...obtain secret grand jury testimony. Rosner was convicted on those charges in December 1972, primarily on the basis of testimony of Det.Robert S. Leuci. Leuci has since admitted that he perjured himself during the first Rosner trial by failing to answer truthfully about his own history of criminal involvement. Dershowitz, who is serving as Rosner's counsel, charged that the U.S. attorney had documents which proved Leuci's perjury at the time the Supreme Court was considering reversing Rosner's decision, but did not make that information known to either the court or the defense. Elliot G. Sagor, an assistant...
After Bauman made his threat against Dershowitz, the law professor retained Monroe H. Freedman, dean of the Hofstra Law School and an expert on legal ethics, to respresent him in Bauman's court. Freedman, Dershowitz and Sagor were present during Monday's hearing in Bauman's chambers. In the transcript, Bauman is referred to as "the court...
FREEDMAN: First, I would like to ask your Honor that we be informed of the substantive rule that would be the basis of any such charge against Mr. Dershowitz and, second, after we have received notice of such a rule if your Honor might be intending to proceed in that direction in view of the fact that the Supreme Court has indicated that an attorney is entitled to due process...