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John R. Sutton has been licensed to practice law in the state since 1972 and has been a board-certified civil trial lawyer continuously since 1985. He and his spouse, Susan, adopted their first child, Christopher, in the late 1970s and their second child, Melissa, around seven years later. He and his partner, Teddy Monto, formed a very ...
NBC’s ‘Dateline: Blind Justice’ depicted how Christopher Sutton hired a hitman to murder his adoptive parents inside their Coral Gables, Florida, residence in August 2004. While John Sutton survived the near-fatal assassination attempt but lost his eyesight, Susan Sutton succumbed to her injuries. The investigators solved the crime fairly quickly but were surprised to learn […]
In July 2010, Christopher Sutton stood trial for murder.Kopp, who agreed to testify in return for a 30-year plea deal, was the prosecution’s key witness. John Sutton also testifed against his son. On July 21, Christopher Sutton was found guilty of attempted murder and murder in the first degree.
NBC’s ‘Dateline: Blind Justice’ chronicles how Susan Sutton was murdered inside her home in Coral Gables, Florida, in August 2004. Her husband, John Sutton, narrowly survived the assassination attempt. The episode features interviews of investigators probing the case and John and his daughter as they piece together the events that led to the heinous crime. […]
Video: John Sutton's 911 call. Nothing was taken from the house - not money, nor jewelry. There was no doubt that this was a premeditated effort to make sure that they were dead.
FL v. SUTTON (2010) On August 22, 2004, an intruder broke into a Coral Gables home and fatally shot Susan Sutton. Her husband, John Sutton, was critically wounded and left permanently blind in the attack. Eight months later, their adopted son Christopher, who helped nurse his father back to health, is arrested and charged.
A man accused of hiring a drug addict to kill his parents was found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder Wednesday by a Miami-Dade jury. Christopher Sutton, 31, allegedly plotted ...
