On the heels of my earlier post today on Richard Chesnoff’s NY Daily News op-ed, I clicked on the television to watch Martha Stewart‘s statement after her sentencing. Much to my surprise, my old friend David Chesnoff — one of Las Vegas’ best attorneys and Richard’s younger brother — was standing there next to Martha. Looks like Martha is strengthening her legal team.
Chez and I struck up our long friendship while toiling together for the same Houston law firm in our first job of out of law school in 1979-80. After practicing civil trial law for a year, Chez decided that he wanted to practice criminal defense law, so he took a job in Vegas. He and I loaded everything he owned into and on top of his late model Fiat and we embarked on a legendary road trip down I-10 from Houston to Vegas. Chez quickly established himself in the Vegas criminal defense bar, and has risen to the top of his profession over the past 24 years.
Adding Chessie to your legal team is a good move, Martha.
And, as usual, Professor Ribstein puts Martha’s sentence and the sentence given in the sad case of Jamie Olis in proper perspective.