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Lawyer's Pants Catch on Fire During Arson Trial

posted by martyb on Friday March 10 2017, @12:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the Liar!-Liar!-Pants-on-Fire! dept.

takyon writes:

A defense lawyer's pants caught on fire while he was delivering a closing argument at an arson trial:

Stephen Gutierrez, who was arguing that his client's car spontaneously combusted and was not intentionally set on fire, had been fiddling in his pocket as he was about to address jurors when smoke began billowing out his right pocket, witnesses told the Miami Herald.

He rushed out of the Miami courtroom, leaving spectators stunned. After jurors were ushered out, Gutierrez returned unharmed, with a singed pocket, and insisted it wasn't a staged defense demonstration gone wrong, observers said. Instead, Gutierrez blamed a faulty battery in an e-cigarette, witnesses told the Miami Herald. "It was surreal," one observer told the Miami Herald.

Jurors convicted his client of second-degree arson anyway.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @01:49PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @01:49PM (#477345)

    It's got to be

    Liar Liar Pants on Fire.

  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday March 10 2017, @04:19PM (3 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 10 2017, @04:19PM (#477400) Journal

    It's got to be

    Liar Liar Pants on Fire.

    Pssst! Hey, buddy! Hate to be the one to break it to you, but you just might want to take a glance at the story's "from the ... dept." line.

    --
    Wit is intellect, dancing.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @07:41PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @07:41PM (#477489)

      He is probably jewish. Cunning, but not very smart.

      Or he could be a bot.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:56AM (#477683)

      No, it's "Lawyer lawyer, pants on fire"