text: Alan Dershowitz may not want to jump aboard Donald Trump's legal team, but apparently, he has no qualms with advising Harvey Weinstein's legal team. 
   
   On Thursday, Weinstein continued his bid in Delaware Bankruptcy Court to obtain personal and business records kept by The Weinstein Co. The movie mogul is currently facing investigation by law enforcement authorities over allegations of sexual misconduct. For months, he's been in court and in arbitration without success in an effort to obtain old emails. He believes the material will allow him to "exonerate himself." 
   
   In new court papers, Weinstein's attorneys repeat their claims that due process rights are being violated. Plus, it's argued that Weinstein should get the benefit of discovery to see if any property for sale belongs to him. 
   
   What's substantively new here is a declaration from Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor who is a frequent legal commentator on CNN and Fox News. The former O.J. Simpson defense attorney has been especially vocal of late on the investigation into Russian collusion in the election and sat down to dinner with Trump recently. He was reportedly asked to join the president's team. That didn't happen, but he's interested in Weinstein too. 
   
   "I have been retained to consult with Benjamin Brafman, Esquire who is representing Harvey Weinstein," he states in a declaration. "I have agreed to consult on the specific issue of Mr. Brafman’s access to his client’s personal and business emails. On information and belief, it is my professional opinion that Mr. Brafman has the right to see and review these emails in order to prepare his constitutionally-mandated role as counsel to Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Brafman has the right to defend his client in the courts of law, in negotiations with prosecutors, in resolving civil claims in negotiation with civil lawyers and in the court of public opinion. On information and belief these emails contain information which is exculpatory of Mr. Brafman’s client and places the allegations against him in a truthful context." 
   
   Although Dershowitz says he is only a consultant, he also tells the judge he is prepared to offer a memorandum in support of Weinstein's bid for documents. ||||| Having never met a camera he didn’t like nor a high-profile case that he couldn’t contribute to, it should be no surprise that Alan Dershowitz has joined the cast of characters in The Weinstein Company bankruptcy case. 
   
   Perhaps hoping to see another reversal of fortune, disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein has brought the cable new regular onboard as a consultant in the proceeding in U.S. Court in Delaware. 
   
   “If Mr. Weinstein were ever to be charged with a crime, he would of course have a constitutional right to all of his emails and other exculpatory materials, under Brady, Giglio and their progeny,” the Harvard Law professor said in a declaration submitted today with other material by Weinstein’s lawyers (read it here). 
   
   As he has in other cases, the much accused and investigated Weinstein is trying to grab ahold of his TWC correspondence and files as the company he co-founded goes through a death spiral of sorts. Following an expose by the New York Times in early October, Weinstein has been accused by dozens and dozens of women of sexual harassment and assault. He is presently being investigated by the NYPD, UK police and has seen the LAPD and the Beverley Hills Police submit findings to the LA County D.A. Earlier this week, Ashley Judd sued Weinstein on claims that he tried to torpedo her career because she wouldn’t submit to his sexual advances. 
   
   In that context and the straining bankruptcy, contrarian and once O.J. lawyer Dershowitz has leaped in – even as TWC said last month that Weinstein’s document request has zero to do with the bankruptcy. A POV that Dershowitz rejects. 
   
   “I believe that his lawyer also has a constitutional right to these materials while there are ongoing criminal investigations in order to present prosecutors with exculpatory information that could persuade them not to bring charges,” Dershowitz adds in his declaration Thursday. “Moreover, basic fairness dictates that Mr. Brafman be given exculpatory information now rather than later, since such information could prevent false charges from being filed,” he adds. “The exculpatory emails have no legitimate commercial value to the bankrupt company. Their only value – and it is not commercial – is to Mr. Brafman and his client in their efforts to achieve justice.” 
   
   “If helpful to the Court, at the appropriate time I will prepare a memorandum of law providing legal support for the claims made above,” Dershowitz declares, already casting a bigger role for himself, unsurprisingly. 
   
   And the circus goes on.
target: – A former member of OJ Simpson's defense team is now assisting Harvey Weinstein. Alan Dershowitz—a Harvard Law School professor and frequent guest on cable news—is serving as a consultant to Weinstein's effort to obtain emails from The Weinstein Company that he sent and received before he was fired in October. Weinstein, facing dozens of accusations of sexual assault and harassment, apparently believes the emails will exonerate him, the Hollywood Reporter notes. He has been fighting for months to get the emails, and Dershowitz filed a declaration supporting the effort in Delaware Bankruptcy Court on Thursday. Weinstein's lawyer has "a constitutional right to these materials while there are ongoing criminal investigations in order to present prosecutors with exculpatory information that could persuade them not to bring charges," Dershowitz said in the filing, per Deadline. He also stated that if Weinstein —who's being investigated by authorities in two countries—is charged with a crime, "he would of course have a constitutional right to all of his emails and other exculpatory materials." (Ashley Judd is suing the disgraced producer for allegedly "torpedoing" her career after she rejected his advances.)