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...lawyer forSusan Smith, the South Carolinian accused of murdering her two kids, asked a judge to delay his client's psychiatric evaluation for 90 days so he'll have more time to decide whether to use the insanity defense. Attorney David Bruck argued that Smith's rights would be violated by an immediate evaluation - - as the prosecution demanded today. Experts say the prosecutor, Thomas Pope, made the demand in order to force Bruck to reveal his defense strategy: a plea of guilty by reason of insanity or a guilty but mentally ill plea. The judge adjourned the hearing without ruling.Post...
After her arraignment Friday, Smith left the courthouse with her head covered against the crowd's jeers and hisses. Prosecutor Thomas Pope said he was still weighing whether he would seek the death penalty. Asked about her state of mind, her lawyer, David Bruck -- a specialist in capital cases -- took a long pause before answering, then said somberly, "She is heartbroken." Her family, says one friend, was "living hour by hour...
...Then I got out of the car a nervous wreck . . . I dropped to the lowest when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me. I took off running and screaming, 'Oh God, oh God no. What have I done.' " But her lawyer, David Bruck, also condemned a Newsweek story -- picked up by other news outlets -- that says Smith watched one of her children struggle. Bruck called the story "made up." Bruck also says that a judge asked that he no longer discuss the case with the media.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board.s
...intensified the ordinary disruption ofbeing that age, many items over," remembers DavidI. Bruck '70, a protester and then-editorial chairof The Crimson. "The images of the war hung in theair like a noxious...
...remember too the idea that we were playingin a big sandbox full of ideas," Bruck says. "Wewere all stoned on the notion that the world ranon ideas, that ideas could instantly transformlife forever...