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• Jermaine Bell, 38, spent more than three years in jail fighting charges against him for an armed robbery in 2018, Local10-TV reported.
When he heard the guilty verdict in a Miami-Dade County, Florida, courtroom, Bell guzzled a cup of bleach, becoming so sick that he had to be removed from the courtroom on a stretcher.
He survived the self-imposed attack, but officials are unclear where he obtained the bleach.
Rev. Jerome Starling, a distant cousin of Bell's, saw him "drinking something that's not right, and that his attorneys are letting him drink it, the corrections are letting him drink it. And all of a sudden, I see him collapse. And I'm like, 'What just happened?'" Starling recounted.
Bell's family members are pursuing the matter. [Local10, 11/21/2022]