Shawn Chapman Holley, the lawyer who represented actress Lindsay Lohan at her court date this week, made her smartest move since she passed the bar: According to TMZ, the attorney has resigned as Lohan's counsel.
Lohan is scheduled to begin serving her 90-day jail sentence, plus a three-month stint at an in-patient rehab centre, on July 20 for missing court-mandated alcohol-education classes, stemming from a conviction for driving under the influence after two DUI incidents in 2007, during which she also tested positive for cocaine.
TMZ had contacted Holley on Thursday for a comment on a Lohan story, only for the lawyer to inform them she was no longer representing the actress. Holley didn't provide her reasons for quitting, but Lohan insiders tell TMZ the Mean Girls star has been talking about appealing her prison sentence and telling friends, "I'm not going to jail!"
Lohan's chances of winning on appeal are very, very low, but as her recent Twitter posts indicate, she may not have a firm grasp on how her case relates to the legal system as a whole.
"It is clearly stated in the Article 5 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights that 'No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,'" Lohan wrote after her sentence was announced. "This was taken from an article by Erik Luna. 'November 1 marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. But there were no celebrations, parades, or other festivities in honor of this punishment scheme created by Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Instead, the day passed like most others during the last 15 years: Scores of federal defendants sentenced under a constitutionally perverted system that saps moral judgment through its mechanical rules.' "
To ostensibly help her in her quest for justice, Lohan has hired Tiffany Esther Feder-Cohen to represent her. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the rookie lawyer only passed the bar last November — and the law school she attended, the West Los Angeles Law School, lost its accreditation in the mid-2000s. We have a feeling Lohan's appeal is going to go really, really well.
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