Lawyer’s pants literally on fire!
Irony: he was defending a client charged with arson.
Lawyer, lawyer, pants on fire.
A Miami attorney’s trousers became too hot to handle as a fire broke out in his pocket during a trial Wednesday.
Stephen Gutierrez — whose client is coincidentally charged with arson — was starting his closing arguments when smoke started funneling from his right pocket, according to the Miami Herald.
The hot-pocketed attorney rushed out of the court room.
“It was surreal,” one unnamed witness told the Miami Herald.
Gutierrez insisted to the court that it wasn’t a staged gimmick for the jury.
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