“This judge has committed more reversible errors in the one day I was in the courtroom,” Alan Dershowitz told Sean Hannity last night, “than I’ve seen in years and years of practicing law. It’s just an outrage.” Dershowitz has practiced law longer than Judge Juan Merchan has been alive, so that speaks volumes about the clown show currently on Broadway — er, in a Manhattan courtroom. (I mean that literally; Dershowitz graduated from Yale Law in 1959, and Merchan was born in 1962.)
Dershowitz had a front-row seat, literally, for the blow-up between Merchan and defense rebuttal witness Robert Costello. “The judge went berserk,” Dershowitz explained, after Costello reacted to one of his rulings on a prosecution objection. First, he kicked the media out of the courtroom, and then he scolded Costello for looking at him “comtemptuously. … It was absurd!” Dershowitz exclaims (via Red…
