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Miami Herald - An attorney representing a Tampa-area man accused in a murder-for-hire scheme believes the importance of being Ernest trumps his client’s trial needs. A judge — apparently an Ernest Hemingway fan — disagrees.
Frank Louderback represents Jerry Bottorff, accused of murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder for hire and a weapons offense for his involvement in the 2007 slaying of Thomas Lee Sehorne, 37, in Lithia, Fla.
He’s entered the annual Ernest Hemingway Look-a-Like Contest at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West and doesn’t want to miss it. The winner will be crowned on July 21.
In his motion for trial suspension, Louderback wrote that he would need to drive to Key West when the trial recesses on July 19, and that he blocked out six hotel rooms for family friends and others "and has had to pay non-refundable deposits."
U.S. District Court Judge Steven Merryday countered in his decision on Louderback’s motion: "Between a murder-for-hire trial and an annual look-alike contest, surely Hemingway, a perfervid admirer of grace under pressure, would choose the trial."
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