Commentary: A Miami lawyer blames an e-cigarette, rather than a stunt, for a fiery trial.
Was this the culprit?
These days we are used to suspecting fire where there’s smoke.
In a Miami courtroom on Wednesday, however, there was an even more inflammatory coincidence.
As the Miami Herald reports , Stephen Gutierrez was presenting his closing arguments in an arson trial when his pants caught fire.
Just writing that sentence makes me weak at the fingers.
Witnesses, though, told the Herald that Gutierrez had been fiddling in his pocket as he defended his client against charges that he’d deliberately set his car on fire.
