Liar Liar Lawyer's Pants On Fire!

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Lawyer's pants erupt in flames during Miami arson trial | Miami Herald
BY DAVID OVALLE

A Miami defense lawyer’s pants burst into flames Wednesday afternoon as he began his closing arguments in front of a jury — in an arson case.

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.

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Gutierrez was representing Claudy Charles, 48, who is accused of intentionally setting his car on fire in South Miami-Dade. He had just started his closing arguments when the fire broke out. Jurors convicted Charles anyway of second-degree arson.

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[ND NYC]

that's a Saul Goodman move...

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Things certainly heated up there at the end of the case.


I would have fired the lawyer for being unprofessional.


His career is flaming out.


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[dshans]

He has a definite flare for courtroom drama.

The old Doors "Light My Fire" gambit.

When you're hot, you're hot.

"What have I got in my pocket," Bilbo Baggins, Esq, asks in his closing.

He scorched the prosecution with his fiery demeanor.

"if the Bic does not Flick, you must acquit."

"Where there's no smoke, there's no ... oh, shit!"