Re: Re: Susan Smith Trial

> Only thing I can think of that must have given the jury some sympathy towards
> Smith was the fact she was sexually abused as a child by her step-father.
> What I didn't understand was didn't they say she still has been having sex
> with this man as recently as a month or two before she murdered her two boys?

     They've been saying THAT. She got off because the jurors have to live
there in the same small town as her relatives. It wasn't fear of retribution
as much as it was being able to look a woman in the eyes after you sentenced
her daughter to die.

                                Commander Will