Dershowitz Joins Legal Team for Wikileaks

[kpete]

Source: The Harvard Crimson

Dershowitz Joins Legal Team for Wikileaks
By CAROLINE M. MCKAY and Zoe A. Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2011


Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz will join Wikileaks founder Julian P. Assange’s legal defense team, according to a Wikileaks statement released yesterday.

Dershowitz told The Crimson that he will serve in an advisory position and said he does not expect a more active role unless the U.S. were to prosecute Assange.

Assange’s head lawyer Geoffrey R. Robertson, who has worked with Dershowitz in the past, contacted the professor to work on the case.

Dershowitz has a history of participating in high-profile cases, including taking part on the “dream team” legal counsel that defended O.J. Simpson.

Read more: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/2/15/dershowitz-case-wikileaks-new/

[Joanne98]

1. Are they sure they want to trust him?

[Robb]

4. My guess is that he just showed up and no one said "no."

It's too stupid a PR move to believe anyone over at WL said, "Hey, can we get Dershowitz?"

[struggle4progress]

2. I lost all respect for Dershowitz when he decided to advocate for torture.

Sept 20, 2002
Legal Torture?
... Alan Dershowitz, the civil libertarian defender of O.J Simpson, believes the law should sanction torture so it may be applied in certain cases, such as terrorist acts ... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/17/60minutes/main324751.shtml

Dershowitz: Torture could be justified
TORTURE
March 03, 2003
... DERSHOWITZ: ... I would talk about nonlethal torture, say, a sterilized needle underneath the nail, which would violate the Geneva Accords, but you know, countries all over the world violate the Geneva Accords ... http://articles.cnn.com/2003-03-03/justice/cnna.Dershowitz_1_ticking-bomb-torture-alan-dershowitz?_s=PM:LAW

September 17, 2008, 12:41 pm
To Torture or Not to Torture
By BARRY GEWEN
... in his new book, “Is There a Right to Remain Silent?,” Dershowitz tackles the question of coercive interrogation ... Torture warrants, Dershowitz insists, are one way to shine law’s light on this darkness, especially if one believes there are times when torture should be permitted ... At the end of his new book, Dershowitz warns: “We need to develop a jurisprudence for the emerging preventive state” ...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/to-torture-or-not-to-torture/

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[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Ok, that means a movie is inevitable.

This is going to be real interesting.

[martymar64]

6. I support WL but Dershowitz is a scumbag.