Chutzph Dershowitz

A detailed Summary of Chutzph Dershowitz

In Alan Dershowitz's novel Chutzpah, he devotes an entire section to

the issue of, and his personal feelings about James Pollard. He begins this

section with a description of the way in which this man was caught selling

classified government documents to the nation of Israel. Basically this man was

a Jewish American spy for the Israeli government because of a duty he felt

stemming from a secret loyalty he felt toward the nation of Israel. Over an

extended period of time this man sold thousand of secret documents which in the

eyes of Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense for the United States was a

Òserious breech in national security.Ó

Dershowitz emphasizes in great detail how in order to avoid a trial in

which the declassification of these documents would be required, Pollard was

pressured to accept a plea bargain in which he would plead guilty, give full

disclosure pertaining to the information he handed over, and release all rights

to any of his future published material that p

mercy of the government was in DershowitzÕs eyes a terrible mistake and a

the fact is that this man had an extremely high security clearance and that he

5 years in prison. The evidence that Dershowitz presents suggests that Pollard

promised in return for his guilty plea. It does seem that if Pollard had fought

pertained to Israeli national security. Dershowitz does his best to downplay

that if Pollard had used his constitutional right to remain silent that the

In this section of his book, Dershowitz is pleading for the Jewish

PollardÕs actions were not in conflict with American national security and that

I am convinced that if Pollard were a non-Jew who had spied for a non-Jewish

received a sentence of life in a maximum security prison and his wife received

he got out of the plea bargain. Dershowitz blames poor legal advice and failure

Approximate Word count = 2076
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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