Chambliss hits lottery, gets just 12 years
Before he’s shipped off to the state penitentiary, perhaps some intrepid gambler will take Mike Chambliss to the dice pit of a local casino. He’d surely beat the house.
Chambliss received just 12 years –- he’s parole-eligible in four –- for taking a knife and killing Nigerian-born boxer Vincent Ekeoba in 2005 at a local convenience store.
Attorney Pete Christiansen carved out the voluntary manslaughter sentence in a case that might have easily been argued as a second-degree murder case.
Chambliss, a former planning commissioner, was described generously as a community leader, political activist and philanthropist.
And all this time I thought he was a political hack, patronage player and intimate pal of former Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates.
Chambliss is lucky he had Christiansen in his corner, luckier still that the guy in the losing corner was a boxer. With no one to stand up for the dead guy from Nigeria, I’m betting Chambliss is out in the minimum.