Ava Everheart (f/k/a Jill Easter)
Ava Everheart: They combed through everything that I ever owned and they never found any reference to [the pills].
Dr. Phil: But they did find your DNA on the pills.
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Ava Everheart: Right, and that is transfer DNA, that doesn’t mean that I touched those items.
Dr. Phil: Tranfer or otherwise, how did your DNA get on pills planted in the car of someone you’re in a controversy with about your son at school? Isn’t that a huge coincidence? That DNA originated on your body.
Ava Everheart: Transfer DNA is not the same thing as direct DNA. It doesn’t mean that I touched those items.
— A conversation between Ava Everheart (formerly known as Jill Easter) and Dr. Phil during yesterday’s episode of the Dr. Phil show, where Everheart contested the fact that she had anything to do with the potpourri of pills and pot that were planted in PTA volunteer Kelli Peters’s car. As a result of their exploits, Everheart was disbarred in October 2014, and Easter’s license to practice law was suspended. Peters was vindicated when she later won $5.7 million in a civil lawsuit filed against the Easters.
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