Lindsay Lohan's new attorney, Mark Heller, might feel like getting slapped in the face when judge Jim Dabney, who handles Lohan's car accident
case, said the lawyer is incompetent to practice law in California. The
judge suggested that the 26-year-old actress either finds another
lawyer who knows what he's doing or she comes to court and weaves her
right to a competent California lawyer.
During court hearing on Friday, February 1, Judge Dabney informed Heller
that he filed the legal document not in accordance with the law rule in
California. The judge said the document was screwed up that he wondered
if Heller even understood how criminal law worked. Heller tried to
blame it on Lohan's previous lawyer, Shawn Holley, but the judge didn't
buy it.
Heller filed the legal document and attached a letter to dismiss the charges, and it was a big no according to California law. The motion of charge dismissal was turned down by the judge anyway. Prosecutor Terry White also declined to delay the trial which is set to open on March 18.
After the hearing, Heller couldn't believe the judge called him
"incompetent." "Having become a lawyer over 44 YEARS AGO, I certainly
know the important issues," he retorted. He also responded to Michael
Lohan who called him a terrible attorney, "I wish Michael Lohan the
best."
Lohan herself wasn't seen on the court hearing in Los Angeles courtroom.
Instead, she stayed in New York City where she was spotted clubbing on
Thursday, February 28 night.
Lohan is charged with three misdemeanor counts which stem from the car
crash back in June 2012. She was driving her Porsche when she hit the
back of a dump truck, and lied to
cops that she wasn't behind the wheel. Her charges include reckless
driving, providing false information to police and willfully obstructing
police from performing their duties.
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