Judge in Herald libel case hoped letters would end family's trauma

Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy testified yesterday that he hoped the Boston Herald's publisher would "wake up and smell the coffee" when he sent him two letters in 2005 demanding that the newspaper drop its appeal of a libel verdict and hand him a check for $3.26 million. (Full article: 594 words)

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