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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on August 28, 2009, 08:56:06 PM

Title: St. Augustine man kills himself before jury's 'not guilty' verdict
Post by: thundley4 on August 28, 2009, 08:56:06 PM

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ST. AUGUSTINE - 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 the verdict, 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 that he began routinely molesting her about 29 years ago when she was 9 or 10.

  Guilty? (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-man-on-trial-suicide-bn082809,0,6096103.story)

I'm unsure about this. Part of me thinks it's a tragedy, but then there is that other part that thinks he knew he was guilty.

Title: Re: St. Augustine man kills himself before jury's 'not guilty' verdict
Post by: Lord Undies on August 28, 2009, 09:15:38 PM

Good things come to those who wait.

I can understand being innocent of the sex charges, yet feeling defeated and hopeless.  It isn't uncommon to be male and be made to feel guilty until proved innocent when "Sex" is part of the crime.  So-called "sex crimes" cause hysteria.