Word: susane
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...participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...
...calculating, cold-hearted woman who drowned her children to win the affections of Tom 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...
...took a jury less than three hours on Saturday to find Susan Smith guilty on two counts of murder in the drowning deaths of her two sons last year. The trial lasted but five days. Now the same jury, which could have found Smith guilty of involuntary manslaughter, must decide whether to sentence the South Carolina mother to life in prison or the electric chair...
...Susan Smithgasped as the Union, S.C., jury returned after just 2 1/2 hours of deliberation and announced that they had voted to sentence her to life in prison, instead of choosing the death penalty. "There was a sharp, collective intake of breath," TIME's Lisa Towle reports. "David Smith, the boys' father, stared straight ahead, not even blinking. Beverly Russell, her stepfather, pulled a handerchief and patted his brow, and Linda Russell, her mother, bowed her head and cried silently into a tissue." The jury of nine men and three women had taken the same amount of time last Saturday...
...Susan Smith's defense rested, clearing the way for jury deliberation over the death penalty, after a parade of relatives and friends testified that sending the 23-year-old woman to the electric chair would only compound the tragedy of her sons' deaths. The most wrenching moment, TIME's Lisa Towle reports, came when Beverly Russell, Smith's stepfather, declared his remorse for years of sexual abuse. "If I'd known at the time what the result of my sin would be," said Russell, formerly a leading figure in the Christian Coalition, "I would have mustered the strength to behave...