A Miami lawyer’s pants caught on fire during an arson trial. He’s about to be suspended
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Gutierrez didn't return calls seeking comment.
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Gutierrez went running out of the courtroom, as bewildered jurors and spectators watched. He blamed a faulty battery for his electronic cigarette that ignited in his pocket, at a coincidental time.
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"I think this is all being blown out of monumental proportions," Gutierrez told reporters at the time.
Prosecutors launched a criminal investigation. In a memo on the case, Assistant State Attorney
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He pleaded guilty to the violations. In September, a referee recommended he be suspended for 91 days, plus two years of rehabilitation. Gutierrez, in court filings, argued that he had been undergoing intense personal problems and was relatively new to the legal profession.
But then the
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