Wow...Man kills himself before jury announced him NOT guilty.

[JupiterSunsation]

Sounds like a line from that Avril Lavigne song......you win the lottery and die the next day........

The Associated Press

4:36 a.m. EDT, August 28, 2009


ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a St. Augustine man on trial for sexual battery charges apparently killed himself before learning the verdict: not guilty.

A St. Johns County judge became concerned Thursday when 57-year-old William Telano Evans didn't show up for the reading of the verdict. The judge sent deputies to find Evans but let the jury read its verdict without him present. Evans, never hearing was found at his home minutes later dead of a gunshot wound.

Evans was arrested in 2004, after a now-38-year-old woman reported the Evans began routinely molesting her about 29 years ago when she was 9 or 10.

 

[cigdaze]

Well, that'll ruin your day.

Of course, I doubt he'd kill himself had he been truly not guilty. His own conscience convicted him.

 

[MattBMiller]

Well, that'll ruin your day.

Of course, I doubt he'd kill himself had he been truly not guilty. His own conscience convicted him.

My thoughts exactly

 

[Ted]

That was Allanis Morissette, but Avril Lavigne is cuter

And I suspect his conscience did deliver the correct verdict.

 

[JupiterSunsation]

That was Allanis Morissette, but Avril Lavigne is cuter

And I suspect his conscience did deliver the correct verdict.

Thanks for the correction, my recollection of whiney annoying singers from Canada is limited! :sifone:


The other thing to consider is time in jail as a convicted child molester wouldn't be fun. The criminals seem to take the victim's side regardless of actual innocence/guilt and if you are in there with them you have been found guilty.

 

[Ted]

Thanks for the correction, my recollection of whiney annoying singers from Canada is limited! :sifone:

Point taken....

Gotta admit though, Allannis is trying...

But Avril apparently bought some boobies :26::drool5:

 

[sellsman11]

Guilty!! Now where is my gavel??!!:willy_nilly: