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To: longnshort who wrote (727209)	7/17/2013 2:49:19 PM
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Angela Corey's hissy fits, threats unprofessional ...................................................................................... by Ron Littlepage on June 8, 2012 jacksonville.com State Attorney Angela Corey An unsolicited memo to State Attorney Angela Corey: You are a public official, and people have the right to express an opinion about how you are doing your job. When those opinions are negative, throwing a hissy fit and making threats do not reflect well. With Corey, there's a pattern of that. Last December when I wrote a column critical of how she handled the Cristian Fernandez case, she fired off a two-page, single-spaced letter on official state attorney letterhead hinting at lawsuits for libel. In the letter, she called me out for my "lack of knowledge and objectivity about the workings of the criminal justice system." Ouch. I think she called me stupid. I seem to remember that during a stint in law school, I made an A in criminal law, but did I threaten a libel suit? No. As a columnist, I'm in the public arena, and folks have a right to express an opinion about me. Then there's Corey's spat with Sandy D'Alemberte. D'Alemberte is a former president of the American Bar Association, a former president of Florida State University and a law professor — not too shabby in the legal credentials department. When Corey was appointed to head up the investigation into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, D'Alemberte had this to say: "I cannot imagine a worse choice for a prosecutor to serve in the Sanford case. There is nothing in Angela Corey's background that suits her for the task, and she cannot command the respect of people who care about justice." Earlier, D'Alemberte had criticized Corey in the Fernandez case. The reaction then: A public records request from her office to FSU seeking all emails, text messages and phone messages involving D'Alemberte related to Fernandez. Then there was this: When David Utter of the Southern Poverty Law Center was on Melissa Ross's radio program and had the audacity to say that Fernandez should be in the juvenile system instead of adult court, that prompted a 20-minute scream-fest from Corey in a call to the center's director. Similar criticism from Jeff Goldhagen, a professor and chief of the division of community pediatrics at Shands Jacksonville, elicited a similar response from Corey. Corey has now hit the national big time. Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is, uh, rather well known. Earlier this week, he wrote a perspective piece for Newsmax.com describing a "40-minute rant, during which she [Corey] threatened to sue Harvard Law School, to try to get me disbarred by the Bar Association and to file charges against me for libel and slander." What set her off and led to the telephone call to Harvard? Derschowitz criticized how Corey filed the charges against Zimmerman. "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." Well said.