Angela Corey-"unethical, corrupt and politically motivated"-Alan Dershowitz

What has gotten into Alan Dershowitz? He has been in the public eye for two generations; a serious, sometimes cranky commentator, critic, and provocateur. He comments on legal matters from time to time because that's what law professors do. Up until the Zimmerman case he usually maintained an academic detachment when speaking on legal and political matters. Yes, he could understand that some people might be upset about a certain judicial outcome but that was to be expected because people were emotionally invested in this principle or that precept but the sun would come up tomorrow and life would go on.
That was prior to the Zimmerman case. We don't here adjectives such as injudicious or ill advised anymore. Instead when speaking of the prosecution team we here unethical, unprofessional, and illegal. Is he shooting up testosterone? He is positively livid.



Dershowitz trains most of his fire on Angela Corey, the state appointed special prosecutor who he calls unethical, corrupt and politically motivated. He charges her with suppressing evidence and over charging Zimmerman with second degree murder when he believes that a manslaughter case is a reach. Corey has according to Dershowitz threatened to sue both him and Harvard Law School for libel.

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….
Even if Angela Corey’s actions were debatable, which I believe they were not, I certainly have the right, as a professor who has taught and practiced criminal law nearly 50 years, to express a contrary view. The idea that a prosecutor would threaten to sue someone who disagrees with her for libel and slander, to sue the university for which he works, and to try to get him disbarred, is the epitome of unprofessionalism.

Evidently first amendment, free speech issues aren't her strong suit.