{"id":10159,"date":"2017-03-09T18:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/florida-lawyers-trousers-catch-fire-in-court-arson-trial\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:55:53","slug":"florida-lawyers-trousers-catch-fire-in-court-arson-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/florida-lawyers-trousers-catch-fire-in-court-arson-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawyer&#8217;s trousers catch fire in court arson trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The lawyer\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/0F91\/production\/_95058930_wpc88e413a_06.png\"\/>Image copyright                  thelawdoctor.net<figcaption>Image caption                                      The lawyer has been called a &#039;liar, liar, pants on fire&#039;, reminiscent of the nursery rhyme                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A Florida defence lawyer&#039;s trousers have reportedly caught fire in court during an arson trial. <\/p>\n<p>Stephen Gutierrez was to address jurors on Wednesday when smoke began billowing from his pocket, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney fled the court and later returned unharmed with a singed pocket, blaming a faulty battery in his e-cigarette, the Miami Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gutierrez, who had been arguing that his client&#039;s car spontaneously caught fire, said it was not a stunt. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was surreal,&quot; one witness told the Herald, while another pointed out that &quot;a lot of people could have been hurt&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch: Bus vaper&#039;s e-cigarette explodes<\/li>\n<li>Watch: E-cigarette &#039;lights man&#039;s trousers&#039; in Kentucky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police and prosecutors are investigating the incident, the newspaper reports, saying that officers &quot;seized several frayed e-cigarette batteries as evidence&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Gutierrez, 28, was making his closing argument to jurors when the fire erupted.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the court moments after running out, still wearing the singed pants, to explain the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The defence attorney was representing Claudy Charles, who was accused of intentionally setting fire to his car in South Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors later convicted Charles of second-degree arson.<\/p>\n<p>E-cigarettes have been known to catch fire spontaneously, with several incidents caught on video.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Media captionThe e-cigarette was blamed for the fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><figcaption>Media captionCCTV shows smoke and flames as the electronic cigarette explodes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39223150 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright thelawdoctor.netImage caption The lawyer has been called a &#039;liar, liar, pants on fire&#039;, reminiscent of the nursery rhyme A Florida defence lawyer&#039;s trousers have reportedly caught fire in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}