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Dershowitz: Zimmerman Prosecutor Threatening to Sue Harvard for My Criticism
Newsmax ^ | June 5, 2012 | Alan Dershowitz

Posted on 06/06/2012 2:03:54 AM PDT by abb

State Attorney Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case, recently called the Dean of Harvard Law School to complain about my criticism of some of her actions.

She was transferred to the Office of Communications and proceeded to engage in a 40-minute rant, during which she threatened to sue Harvard Law School, to try to get me disciplined by the Bar Association and to file charges against me for libel and slander.

She said that because I work for Harvard and am identified as a professor she had the right to sue Harvard.

When the communications official explained to her that I have a right to express my opinion as “a matter of academic freedom,” and that Harvard has no control over what I say, she did not seem to understand.

She persisted in her nonstop whining, claiming that she is prohibited from responding to my attacks by the rules of professional responsibility — without mentioning that she has repeatedly held her own press conferences and made public statements throughout her career.

Her beef was that I criticized her for filing a misleading affidavit that willfully omitted all information about the injuries Zimmerman had sustained during the “struggle” it described. She denied that she had any obligation to include in the affidavit truthful material that was favorable to the defense.

She insisted that she is entitled to submit what, in effect, were half truths in an affidavit of probable cause, so long as she subsequently provides the defense with exculpatory evidence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corey; dershowitz; georgezimmerman; travon; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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1 posted on 06/06/2012 2:04:07 AM PDT by abb
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To: marktwain; 2ndDivisionVet

ping


2 posted on 06/06/2012 2:05:09 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Foolish move on her part. Go Dersh!


3 posted on 06/06/2012 2:09:34 AM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: abb

Phhhhtttt! I’m sure Alan is terrified. /s


4 posted on 06/06/2012 2:10:43 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: abb

All these hooded sons and daughters of Obama. They need to stuff them back in Obama’s a**.


5 posted on 06/06/2012 2:14:17 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: abb

It would seem that Ms Corey is well on the way to making herself a dangerous enemy.


6 posted on 06/06/2012 2:20:17 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The new Nifong.


7 posted on 06/06/2012 2:24:20 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

“She should go back to law school, where she will learn that it is never appropriate to submit an affidavit that contains a half truth, because a half truth is regarded by the law as a lie, and anyone who submits an affidavit swears to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. “


8 posted on 06/06/2012 2:28:37 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: abb
Damn funny that she called, and I really enjoy Dershowitz's characterizations of "rant" and "nonstop whine."

But technically, she's right that the charging affidavit is kosher under Florida criminal law practice, and Dershowitz is wrong. The charging affidavit only need include exculpatory material, if that is an element of the charged crime. In Florida, the criminal charge of 2nd degree murder makes no reference to the self defense statutes, which are in a different chapter.

Not to say Corey's charge is ethical, it's not. Just saying that there won't be any evidence of that in the charging information or supporting affidavit; at least not the way Dershowitz presents it.

He could point out that the record has NO evidence of certain elements sworn true in the affidavit. There is no evidence that the dispatcher ordered Zimmerman to wait for police, for example.

9 posted on 06/06/2012 2:39:03 AM PDT by Cboldt
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Massive typo in my previous - the charging affidavit only need include inculpatory material. Of course, it has to recite all of the elements of the crime.
10 posted on 06/06/2012 2:42:20 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Interesting points, thanks, but I don’t see why the fact that Zim was defending himself is not “an element of the charged crime.”


11 posted on 06/06/2012 2:45:56 AM PDT by varialectio
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To: abb

This charming Libtard is getting desperate ...

12 posted on 06/06/2012 2:51:40 AM PDT by Zakeet (Obama loves to wok dogs)
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To: abb

Dershowitz needs to take this case pro bono.


13 posted on 06/06/2012 2:51:57 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: varialectio
She is in trouble and doesn't want her Nazi tactics expose and I think she is a GOP DA from Jacksonville.

She thinks that this will help her career but Pam Bondi will cut her off at the knees as she wants to move her career too.

Pam is dating a friend of my son's Dad, in Tampa.

14 posted on 06/06/2012 2:51:57 AM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: abb
Okay, that is the biggest whiny ouchies I've ever heard of from a high-profile case prosecutor in a long time. That says everything to me.

And I'm just a dumb shit layman. Pretty clear now that Corey overstated her charges against Zimmerman. When someone gets that defensive you know you're over the target. I remember the dumbass woman in the OJ trial how she would actually cower in the court room and then stammer outside on the steps and make excuses. Marcia something was her name.

15 posted on 06/06/2012 2:53:18 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: A Navy Vet

Indeed. Corey is exhibiting classic symptoms of acute “ButtHurt.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Clark


16 posted on 06/06/2012 2:59:39 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb
Oops, just saw this last line.

"She insisted that she is entitled to submit what, in effect, were half truths in an affidavit of probable cause, so long as she subsequently provides the defense with exculpatory evidence."

Really? I'm no lawyer, but I though all "exculpatory evidence" is suppose to be included in the original charges. Am I wrong?

17 posted on 06/06/2012 2:59:50 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: abb
Oops, just saw this last line.

"She insisted that she is entitled to submit what, in effect, were half truths in an affidavit of probable cause, so long as she subsequently provides the defense with exculpatory evidence."

Really? I'm no lawyer, but I though all "exculpatory evidence" is suppose to be included in the original charges. Am I wrong?

18 posted on 06/06/2012 3:00:10 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: abb

Angela Corey is an INCOMPETENT DOPE. She SHOULD be NIFONGED!


19 posted on 06/06/2012 3:01:57 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

...”It would seem that Ms Corey is well on the way to making herself a dangerous enemy”...

I happened to be in FL when she made the speech charging Zimmerman. I was stunned at what she was saying but I was stunned more by the way she was preening herself on TV. I felt she was using the opportunity to garner political support for some kind of “run.” I am not a bit surprised that she does not know that Dershowitz has a right to speak on this.


20 posted on 06/06/2012 3:03:25 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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