He should pay up!
Had no one come up with a way it is possible;
I have a strong feeling that attorney would have used this as part of his clients defense.

"Your honor I have a blog with X amount of users offered a whopping 1 MIL to anyone who could prove this crime was even possible"
"No one could find a way it was"
"Common sense says if it were possible someone would have come forward being there was such a large reward"

People, stop with the stupid Pepsico comparison. It's mentally lazy to draw any comparison between the two cases. It's been pointed out many times in this thread why they aren't similar. I won't repeat it here.

nazmin: This is a unitlateral contract. People have explained this already in this thread. This lawyer was joking? Was he joking about his client being not guilt? He is making jokes about his defendant in a serious murder case? This Lawyer made a unilateral contract with the public in a public fourm about a very serious matter. This lawyer should pay. He even went on to say how to express the contract, "... actually able to travel across two states and kill four people in the time that prosecutors had alleged." By law the lssuer of a unilateral contract can reject the contract before somone shows intent to fulfill the contract, usually over 50%(depends on the state.) in this case the person fulfill the whole contract therefore the lawyer should pay.
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averagejoe42: averagejoe42: Under Florida law, contracts valued at $500 or more must be written and signed to be valid.
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sorry that is a contract between 2 people, Unilateral contracts dont need to be signed only bilateral ones. How can you have everyone who watched dateline that night sign a contract?

Hmm, good point. After reading over the transcript and the complaint filed, I agree he should have to pay up.

He should also be disbarred for acting in a manner contrary to his client's best interests.

DeltaXi65: From what I recall of first year contracts, if the kid can prove that he believed the million dollar offer was legitimate - and if he can show that objectively others thought it was legitimate - he's got a 50/50 shot at winning.i>

That's a pretty daring prediction, Perry Mason.

Madbassist1: Why is this green?

Because the rest of us non-TFers like to read about morons who do stupid shiat like this and get called out on it.

We love the smell of crow.

seniorgato: No, it's brilliant... And then those people turn up missing.

...Is that like waking up dead?