Alan Dershowitz Was Obsessed With Men ‘Wrongfully Accused’ of Rape

Alan Dershowitz has been busy battling negative publicity related to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein—including allegations by at least two of Epstein’s accusers, who say they were forced into having sex with Dershowitz. (He strongly denies this.)

But a New Yorker profile of the 80-year-old Harvard Law professor highlights more of Dershowitz’s controversial history, one that made some female students uncomfortable in the 1980s and 1990s and apparently included an obsession with discussing rape cases.

As the magazine reported of Dershowitz’s discussions of representing men accused of rape, “Some students thought that he strained logic in order to defend men.”

“In Dershowitz’s view, men who are accused of rape, there has got to be a defense,” one female student from 1991 told the New Yorker. “He had convoluted ways of thinking about how men could misinterpret lack of consent. And it wasn’t relegated to when we were speaking about a rape case. Wherever we were on the syllabus, he would bring it up.”

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At one point, according to another female student, “a woman raised her hand and said, essentially, O.K., enough rape examples! There are women in this class who have been raped. Can we move on to something else?”

Dershowitz had also written op-eds arguing against statutory-rape laws, suggesting that 15 was a reasonable age of consent regardless of the age of the partner, and that men shouldn’t face charges for hiring “prostitutes,” but that the sex workers should.

The second female student described Dershowitz this way: “He said, ‘Prostitutes know what they’re doing—they should be prosecuted. But you shouldn’t ruin the john’s life over that.’ If I had raised my hand to challenge that, I would have been singling myself out as—God forbid—a feminist.”

These anecdotes provide a backdrop for Dershowitz’s representation of Epstein, which, according to the New Yorker, is the only case of his career that he regrets. Dershowitz claimed he was misled about the severity of the allegations against the millionaire predator—who now faces sex-trafficking charges in New York.

The magazine’s deeper dive into Dershowitz has some other new revelations about Epstein, too.

https://news.yahoo.com/alan-dershowitz-obsessed-men-wrongfully-175051889.html

Gilroy shooting suspect purchased AK-47-style rifle legally in Nevada, police say

Looks like we got our new/old narrative

The suspect in the deadly shooting at Gilroy’s garlic festival Sunday evening purchased his assault rifle in Nevada earlier this month, police said.

Santino William Legan, the 19-year-old believed to have killed three people and injured 12 others, was living with family members in Nevada when he purchased the AK-47-style rifle on July 9, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told reporters Monday morning.

While California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, and bans possession of most assault rifles, Nevada has far looser rules. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting last year, which was also committed by a 19-year-old, California lawmakers banned all sales of rifles, in addition to handguns, to people younger than 21 years old.

It’s unclear where in Nevada Legan purchased the gun. Nevada law allows residents older than 18 to purchase assault rifles from licensed firearm dealers after passing a background check, and currently doesn’t require a check for sales between private individuals.

A new law will change that to also mandate background checks for private sales or transfers, although it doesn’t go into effect until next year.

A UC Berkeley study in 2017 found that in the two weeks after gun shows take place in Nevada, there’s a corresponding spike in gun-related deaths and injuries across the state line in California.

Police are still searching for a motive for the shooting. Legan was killed in a firefight with three Gilroy officers soon after he began shooting at the festival, local authorities said.

“Despite the fact they were outgunned with their handguns against a rifle, those three officers were able to fatally wound the suspect, and the event ended fairly quickly,” Smithee said.

Say goodby to your rights Nevada, it's only just begun, 'As Ca goes so goes the nation'

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/29/gilroy-shooting-gun-rifle-nevada/

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