Cohen, formerly an associate at Sacks Weston Diamond who joined in 2016, left the firm when he relocated in 2020 to California, where he serves as co-owner of a legal outsourcing company.

Although that case involved a nonviolent offense, Weston’s attorney has cited it in opposing the medication of his client. Under a separate decision issued in 1990, in Washington v.

It has been five years since the arrest of Russell Weston Jr., but it remains unclear when, or if, his case will ever proceed to trial. Weston, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic charged in the ...

Most of the $319,931 were lawyer fees and reimbursed case costs in connection with legal matters that Diamond and his co-defendant, former associate Jesse Cohen, diverted from Sacks Weston.