Defendant took cyanide after guilty verdict

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Source: Associated Press


PHOENIX (AP) — A former Wall Street trader who collapsed in court after being found guilty of arson and later died committed suicide by taking cyanide, according to an autopsy released Friday.

The Maricopa County medical examiner's office toxicology tests showed that Michael Marin had the poison in his system.

After he was found guilty of arson in June, Marin put his head in his hands and appeared to put something in his mouth. He then drank from a sports bottle.

It was a bizarre ending to a case that began in 2009 when he emerged from his burning Phoenix-area mansion in scuba gear.





Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Defendant-took-cyanide-after-guilty-verdict-3740798.php

[Posteritatis]

1. Oh well. (nt)

[cali]

2. gad. reads like something out of a novel.

[Trajan]

3. There is video of this ....

It's rather morbid ...

[Evasporque]

4. horrible....you can see him go cyanotic shortly before he collapses....

a bluish tint....to his skin as he becomes oxygen starved.

Cyanide binds permanently with haemoglobin in the red blood cells and prevents oxygen molecules from being transported. The victim suffocates in a matter of minutes and no amount of oxygen forced into the body can stop it....

[LynneSin]

6. That reminds me of Budd Dwyer

Although he did his the day before he was to be sentenced on bribe charges. But he held a press conference and committed suicide right there on TV. But since he died before he was sentenced his wife got his state pension.

I can't believe that was 25 years ago.

[Psephos]

7. William Smith, whose testimony led to Dwyer's conviction, later recanted.

Smith said he lied under oath to get a better sentencing deal for himself. He admits this on camera in the 2010 documentary Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623777/

Dwyer actually was, as he resolutely maintained, innocent. Due to peculiarities in Pennsylvania law, because he died in office before he could be sentenced, his wife received survivor's benefits until she died.

Hey man, nice shot. That guy had balls.

[Deep13]

8. He should have done that before the trial. nt

[primavera]

9. I wonder where he got it

I mean, you can't just buy cyanide over the internet can you?

[bitchkitty]

10. I think you can. I believe jewelers use it. n/t