TWIN NOW CLAIMS HE IS THE MURDERER

A Chicago man is now confessing to a 2003 murder that his identical twin brother was convicted of 13 years ago. As his identical twin looked on, Karl Smith, 38, told a Chicago judge last week, “I’m here to confess to a crime I committed that he was wrongly accused of.” Kevin Dugar, imprisoned for the 2003 murder in which a man died and a woman was injured after a gunman fired into a small crowd of gangsters on a North Side Chicago intersection, watched in tears as his brother confessed to the crime. For his part, Smith is already in jail serving a 99-year prison sentence as one of four participants in a 2008 home-invasion robbery, in which two people, including a 6-year-old boy, were shot but survived. So in confessing to his brother’s crime, Smith is risking nothing, while his brother could be freed. State attorneys are skeptical. But the twins’ mother, Judy Dugar, is certain that Smith is telling the truth. “He wouldn’t lie about that,” she told the Chicago Tribune. Judge Vincent Gaughan has not said when he will decide if Smith is just taking an easy fall for his twin.
* ‘Cause he can’t decide between flipping a coin or using a Magic 8-Ball.
* Wait – I remember this episode of Boston Legal. James Spader got him off.
* Anyone else wondering how identical twin brothers can have different last names?
* I guess sometimes there is no evil twin. They’re both bad.
* I like the inference in his mom’s statement: “He wouldn’t lie about that. Oh, he’d lie about plenty of stuff – just not about that.”
* Well, if he’s not lying, he certainly never told the truth about it for 13 years.
* Of course, the mom has no interest in this case at all – except to try and get one of her sons out of prison.
* The only surprise is that it took them this long to think up this plan.
* The first twin had tears in his eyes ’cause hearing it out loud made him realize what a dumb idea it was.