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Florida Man Escapes Courtroom To Prove His Innocence A Florida man orchestrated an escape from the courtroom during one of his trial hearings…but he says it was all in the interest in helping out his defense team. Via MailOnline : Dayonte Resiles, a 22-year-old from Broward County, Florida, is accused in the stabbing death of Jill Halliburton Su, 59, a member of the wealthy Halliburton family, during a home invasion robbery in September 2014. This past July 15, Resiles escaped from a courtroom during a hearing in the trial, triggering a six-day manhunt. Resiles jumped out of a jury box and ran from a courtroom around 9:30am, breaking free of his handcuffs and shackles and ditching his gray prison jumpsuit in a hallway. It was later determined that he received help from his girlfriend and three others as part of a plot that had been planned during jailhouse calls and visits. Following his recapture, Resiles wrote a letter to the judge hearing his case. An apologetic Resiles insisted that his intention was to gather evidence that would prove his innocence. ‘I hope you don’t take it personal because your (sic) one judge that I have great respect for,’ he wrote to Judge Raag Singhal. ‘I felt I was at a dead end with nowhere to turn to,’ he wrote. ‘I tried to appeal to everyone to prove to them I was innocent but my voice went unheard.’ ‘When I escaped, my whole reason was to gather enough info on my case to prove my innocence,’ Resiles writes. On September 8, 2014, the body of Halliburton Su was found by her oldest son, who was sent to check up on the house when her husband couldn’t access the home’s surveillance cameras at work. It’s believed that Resiles broke in the house through a rear window to rob the home, but ran into Su and killed her in the process. How much of that time on the outside do you think this guy was REALLY using to do CSI work and research on his case? Continue reading →