Florida Man Uses Obesity as Murder Defense

A Florida man accused of murder has used his obesity as a rather unique defense. Edward Ates is accused of having shot and killed Paul Duncsak, a pharmaceutical executive, in 2006. Ates’ attorney, Walter Lesnevich, insists that his client (at five-foot-eight and 285 pounds) was simply not in good enough physical condition to have performed the murder.

Duncsak was shot and killed while walking down a hallway – Lesnevich says the trajectory of the bullets show that the killer would have had to fire from the stairs leading to a basement, then run up the rather lengthy flight of stairs. Lesnevich maintains that Ates simply would not have been capable of running up the stairs, then collecting all the shell casings and driving twenty-one hours to his mother’s house in Louisiana.

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