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Marquise Sevonta Williams, Chaz Antonio West, and Joshua Lashearn Burgess were being escorted into court to be tried on charges of invading a Pensacola, Fla., home to commit robbery. A deputy noticed one of the defendants looking for something in his jail uniform, and according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, the man explained that a note from his lawyer had gone missing. But when a deputy found it, he discovered it was not from a lawyer: it was, rather, from one of the defendants to another, with advice on how to “get their stories straight for trial.” The note gave the prosecution so much incriminating information that the defendants gave up and pleaded guilty. (AC/South Florida Sun-Sentinel) ...Because they couldn’t plead stupidity.
Original Publication Date: 15 September 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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