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Associated Press - November 4, 2009 4:55 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - A defense lawyer says parodies, pranks and freewheeling Internet discussion are at risk in a Manhattan criminal case against a man accused of using online aliases to discredit his father's academic rivals in a debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Attorney Ronald Kuby asked a court Wednesday to throw out nearly all the criminal charges against Raphael Golb. The court hasn't ruled.
Prosecutors say Golb impersonated 1 of his professor father's adversaries and used other aliases to color debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls. He faces identity theft and other charges.
The more than 2,000-year-old scrolls were found in the 1940s in Israel. They include the earliest known version of portions of the Hebrew Bible.
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