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Boston's legal black eye continues with a pair of familiar local lawyers in the middle of things.
Las Vegas attorney David Chesnoff is part of a legal team that won yet another victory, this time before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, on behalf of New England mob figure Vincent Ferrara in an increasingly infamous case involving law enforcement and prosecutorial misconduct and witness manipulation in the Vincent James Limoli murder case.
The government twisted the testimony of Walter Jordan, a participant in the 1985 Limoli murder. Problem was, the murder wasn't approved by mob bosses and investigators knew it. But they insisted on hanging the murder on Ferrara, who had a long historical link to organized crime and was already implicated in less serious crimes.
Chesnoff took over Ferrara's appeal petition from longtime law partner Oscar Goodman, who now spends his days defending Las Vegas from the mayor's chair.
Ferrara consistently denied involvement in the Limoli murder, and eventually accepted a 264-month sentence, but afterward Goodman submitted an affidavit stating that Ferrara's case and plea negotiations would have been quite defensible without the piling...