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The Boston Herald has asked a judge to throw out a libel verdict that
Judge Ernest B. Murphy won last February, claiming Murphy subsequently tried to "bully the Herald" into abandoning its rights to appeal. Herald lawyers say Murphy sent threatening letters to Herald publisher
Patrick J. Purcell after the verdict. One letter said: "So here’s the deal. I’d like to meet with you at the Union Club on Monday, March 7. ...You will bring to that meeting a cashier’s check, payable to me, in the sum of $3,260,000. No check, no meeting." (Related Globe
story and
Dan Kennedy comment.)
