Word: susane
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...hours after David Smith completed devastating testimony Tuesday that evoked sobs from jurors, a truck pulled up near the Union, S.C. courthouse with freshly-printed copies of his book about the tragedy, "Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith." While Susan Smith's lawyers were expected to attack her ex-husband for the book, TIME's Lisa Towle says Smith seems to have won over the jury by claiming that all proceeds will go to children's charities except $20,000 he'll use for living expenses while he relocates. Towle says Smith makes his most damaging point -- that...
...week strike against both major Detroit newspapers. Sixunionsrepresenting 2,500 workers walked off their jobs at the Gannett-owned Detroit News and Knight-Ridder's Free Press on July 13 over proposed job cuts and pay changes. But the journalists, who include sportswriter Mitch Albom, film critic Susan Stark, and veteran auto writer Doron Levin, tell TIME Daily that they have run out of patience with what they say is mostly aTeamsterissue (which the publishers characterize as "featherbedding"), one that is hurting their papers financially as the strike continues. Says one columnist: "We don't have anything in common with...
...hearing. "All my hopes, all my dreams, everything that I had planned for the rest of my life, it ended that day," he said, hoping his sorrowful display would convince all 12 jurors -- some of whom have expressed doubts -- that Smith deserves the death penalty. It may have. "Whereas Susan has been accused of playing to people emotionally -- of turning on and off her tears -- what came from David today was true, raw feeling," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It was so poignant and such a hard act to follow that the defense did not even attempt to cross-examine...
...begin to see the water seep in -- it had a greenish brown tinge -- until the entire compartment was filled. The jurors leaned into the television monitor as the water became visible. Some just lowered their heads and shook them back and forth, as if to say 'No, no.'"Susan Smith Page
...possible mistrial in theSusan Smithmurder trial was thrown out by Circuit Judge William Howard, who ruled that an accidental contact between a juror and a member of the Smith family--apparently in a hotel laundry room--was of no importance. Sara Singleton, grandmother of Susan Smith's ex-husband, said "it was innocent. . . it was stupid," in comments that seemed to confirm she was the family member in question. The sentencing phase of the trial, which began today, could last up to a week. Smith was found guilty of two counts of murder last Saturday...