Word: bruck
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Phoebe M. Bruck, co-chair of the design committee, dismissed the fears of residents as misguided complaints from "people who don't like change...
Catharsis has come to Union. Perhaps, as her lawyers contended, the jurors decided that Smith has suffered, and will continue to suffer, enough. Perhaps defense attorney David Bruck's final biblical admonishment--"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"--echoed in their ears. Or perhaps they simply reached the cold understanding that killing Smith would not bring those two little boys back to life. Perhaps the jurors could not erase their memories of testimony about Smith as a child and as a sunny young mother on the streets of their small town...
...Findlay, the son of the owner of the textile plant where she worked as a secretary. In his opening statement, assistant solicitor Keith Giese said, "For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country in the eye and lied." The defense, mounted by David Bruck, wanted the jurors to see Smith as a deeply troubled woman who tried to commit suicide and momentarily forgot about her sons. "Please understand," said co-defense attorney Judy Clarke, "the victims in this case are Michael and Alex Smith. They were beautiful children. They were precious children . [but] this case...
...young sons,Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months. All of the jurors are members of the same community that she had angered and betrayed last November when her nationally-televised pleas to find the missing boys' kidnapper turned out to be stagecraft. In his closing argument, defense lawyer David Bruck quoted the Gospel of John: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Says Towle: "This is also a religious community with an anti-death penalty feeling. You cannot deny, when you sit here, the emotional ties people had with her, or with...
...town's 82-year-old courthouse, installing lights and vying for camera angles that accentuated the high ceilings. Meanwhile, lawyers debated whether the trial should be televised at all. Those in favor argued that live testimony would provide an opportunity to heal Union's wounds. Smith's lawyer, David Bruck, countered that potential witnesses feared an O.J. Simpson-type spectacle that would make them "as recognizable as Kato Kaelin...