THE INSIDER: Lawyer fights arson case heatedly
A lawyer claiming his client’s car engine spontaneously combusted ends up in a cloud of e-smoke
Usually when you hear about someone’s pants being on fire, your mind jumps to lies. And in a fun twist of fate, it was indeed a lawyer’s pants that recently caught fire, according to geek.com. "Unfortunately, this isn’t evidence of divine intervention or magic, but of a faulty e-cig," it wrote. "Even better, the Miami-based attorney, Stephen Gutierrez, was in court at the time, defending his client on an arson charge." The defendant, Claudy Charles, was accused of setting fire to his own car to claim from insurance. Gutierrez claimed Charles’ car could have spontaneously combusted, and during closing arguments that’s exactly what happened to his e-cigarette, causing smoke to billow from his pants. Police have since confiscated the vape pen on suspicion that he was pulling an elaborate stunt to get his client off the hook, which Gutierrez denies. "No one thinks that a battery left in their pocket is somehow going to explode," he told NBC News. "After careful research, I now know this...
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