Hidetada Yamagishi Retains Celebrity Lawyer from OJ Simpson’s “Dream Team”

[physique]

Since when do IFBB pros have the kind of money/deep pockets to afford a lawyer of this nature?



IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Hidetada Yamagishi has retained one of the top Hollywood defense attorneys, Shawn Chapman Holley to defend him in his legal case involving steroid possession and steroid distribution; Holley is a uber celebrity attorney with an impressive resume defending celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richey, rapper The Game and Michelle Rodriguez.

Shawn Chapman Holley is a Partner at Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP, the chief legal correspondent for E! Entertainment Television, the former Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office of the Cochran Firm, former head of the Cochran Firm’s national Criminal Defense Section.

She is probably best known as a member of O.J. Simpson’s defense team, aka the “Dream Team,” in Simpson’s criminal murder trial. She has extensive legal experience in high-profile cases:
Ms. Holley successfully defended Sara Jane Olson in her highly-publicized cases involving crimes committed by the Symbionese Liberation Army more than twenty-eight years ago. Her clients have included Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, actors Stan Shaw and Nia Long, and NBA basketball stars Larry Johnson and Byron Scott. She was also a member of the defense team which successfully represented celebrated Black Panther leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt in a highly-publicized hearing which resulted in his release from prison after more than twenty-five years and the reversal of his murder conviction. Ms. Holley is Chief Legal Correspondent for the E! Network, providing on-air commentary on topical legal issues concerning entertainers and the entertainment industry. She was on-air legal analyst for KABC Eyewitness News in Los Angeles for several years and appears frequently on the Today Show, Good Morning America, PrimeTime Live, The O’Reilly Factor, Court TV, Fox News and CNN. She was a featured lawyer on Fox TV’s Power of Attorney for two seasons and was most recently featured as an on-air legal analyst on the E! Network’s nightly international coverage of the Michael Jackson trial.


With the benefit of Shawn Chapman Holley, Hide may able to get out of jail next week on reduced misdemeanor charges with time served, avoid deportation, and continue to compete in IFBB pro bodybuilding contests in the United States.

[Mr.Freeze]

its done!
It was a good day in court for Hidetada Yamagishi.

Yamagishi was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on December 8 and charged with six felonies and three misdemeanors. Today, Wednesday February 6, at Los Angeles Superior Court all felony charges were dismissed along with two misdemeanor counts, as Yamagishi pled no contest to one misdemeanor count of possession of Viagra without a prescription. Yamagishi was sentenced to 24 months of summary probation with credit for time served, which amounted to 91 days - the 61 days Yamagishi has been incarcerated in the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, California and 30 days credit for good time served. According to Yamagishi's defense attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, the scenario was the best possible outcome for Yamagishi.

"I met with Mr. Lynch who is the Head Deputy of the District Attorney's office yesterday," Chapman Holley said. "I presented him a packet of materials. Not only declarations from people indicating that there was no way in the world that the amount of steroids that he possessed was for distribution but also...a lot of character letters. Also, our concern is what is going to happen in the immigration court. We had an extensive letter from the immigration attorney talking about what is likely to happen in the immigration proceedings. I wanted the DA to consider all of these things because this is a great guy, a great competitor and a great athlete who had no intention of selling or distributing any of these compounds. And he is also going to have to face a number of serious consequences with regard to immigration and with regard to whatever sponsorships he has. So I wanted to take all of that into consideration and assess what made sense."

Yamagishi will now have to wait to see how things proceed in Immigration court to see what happens to his 01 visa, given to people with extraordinary talents and abilities, such as professional athletes. Should that visa be revoked - which remains a possibility - Yamagishi would have to find another avenue in which to enter the United States to compete in professional bodybuilding contests.

"Hopefully he will be able to ultimately come back to this country and compete," Chapman Holley said.

According to Chapman Holley, Yamagishi will be released from the custody of the Sheriffs department today. Flexonline has learned that Yamagishi is currently in transport to the Federal Correctional Institute in San Pedro, California. "I don't know what will happen there," Chapman Holley said. "They may send him immediately back to Japan at which point he will have to work with his immigration attorney to get back to the states hopefully to compete."

Yamagishi entered the court room wearing a long-sleeved thermal underwear shirt under a lime green LA County Jail prison-issue uniform and sat at a table next to Chapman Holley and the court-appointed Japanese translator. Presiding judge Amy Hogue never addressed Yamagishi directly. Yamagishi was ordered to pay $120 in court fees. He was in court for approximately five minutes.

[srt8]

did they deny him bail or could he just not come up with it? 61 days and 2yrs probation is some bulllllllshit, thank god for our countries laws.