Dershowitz on Giuliani: no due process, no hearing, vague criteria

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Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus, said if Rudy Giuliani can be disbarred without a hearing, there won’t be any lawyers left. There was no due process, no hearing. and the criteria they used is so vague that anyone who says anything to a third party and it turns out to not be true…”My God, there’d be no lawyers left.”

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During a Sunday appearance on New York City WABC 770 AM radioโ€™s โ€œThe Cats Roundtable,โ€ Dershowitz elaborated on the “danger”ย of allowing Giuliani to be disbarred โ€œwithout a hearing.โ€ He argued that equal justice for all is now โ€œmortally wounded.โ€

โ€œI taught legal ethics for, I donโ€™t know, 35 years at Harvard Law school. I think of myself as a leading expert on legal ethics. Iโ€™ve never ever seen a case where a lawyer was essentially disbarred โ€ฆ without a hearing,โ€ Dershowitz outlined.

โ€œI mean, the most basic concept of due process is you donโ€™t deprive somebody of his living, of his freedom, of his ability to work without a hearing. And then the criteria under which they suspended his law license is so vague. It says in the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to a third person. In other words, if he goes on your show, or he goes on my podcast, or he goes on Fox or anywhere else, and he makes a statement which turns out to be false, and he had reason to believe it was false, he could be disbarred.

“Do you know how many lawyers weโ€™d have left if we applied that standard across the board? โ€ฆ

“We have case after case after case where prosecutors, defense attorneys, lawyers of every kind, have made statements โ€ฆ which turn out to be untrue, and theyโ€™re never disbarred. And certainly not without a hearing. And so, this is a first. โ€ฆ The atmosphere is such today that if you defended President Trump in any way, theyโ€™re out to get you. And theyโ€™re certainly out to get Rudy Giuliani.โ€

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