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Lawyer's Pants Catch on Fire During Arson Trial

posted by martyb on Friday March 10 2017, @12:24PM   
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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Original Submission

• Please, will somebody think of the children (Score: 4, Funny) by stretch611 on Friday March 10 2017, @07:31PM

  by stretch611 (6199) on Friday March 10 2017, @07:31PM (#477483)

  Let's hope this does not start a trend. If a fire starts every time a lawyer lies, the fire department will need to close down every courtroom across the nation.

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  Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P

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