The Susan Smith Trial
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Susan Smith is escorted from the Union County Courthouse Friday, July 28, after the jury delivered a verdict of life in prison. David Smith discusses his reaction to the verdict outside his Spartanburg home. Photos by Dave Martin (Associated Press), Mike Bonner (Herald-Journal). (7/28/95, 108K, 142K)
Court-goers wait for a chance to get into the courtroom Wednesday to witness testimony in the Susan Smith trial. About 40 people were turned away. Photo by Mike Bonner. (7/26/95, 109K)
Susan Smith, center, is escorted out of the Union County Courthouse in Union, S.C. Saturday, July 22, 1995 after a jury delivered a guilty verdict in her murder trial. Sheriff Howard Wells is at right. AP Photo by Ruth Fremson. (7/22/95, 131K)
Defense witness Dr. Seymour Halleck, left, and Susan Smith's attorney David Bruck leave a restaurant in Union during their lunch break Friday. Dr. Halleck, a psychiatrist who examined Smith, testified that she said she considered throwing herself and her sons off a bridge before she drowned them. Photo by Mike Bonner. (7/21/95, 94K)
South Carolina State Law Enforcement agent Pete Logan arrives at the Union County Courthouse to testify Thursday, July 20, 1995, in the Susan Smith murder trial. He said Smith showed remorse, "probably the greatest I've seen in 35 years." Photo by Mike Bonner. (7/20/95, 76K)
Tom Findlay, center, the former boyfriend of Susan Smith, leaves the Union County Courthouse Wednesday, July 19, 1995, after testifying at her trial. Findlay testified that a few days before Smith drowned her sons, he wrote her that the boys were one reason their relationship could not continue. AP Photo by Mary Ann Chastain. (7/19/95 -- 89K)
Shirley Crask, who created a memorial to Alex and Michael Smith at John D. Long Lake, has placed a basket of stones nearby with the message, "Free Stones. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Crask says she now supports Susan Smith. See related story. Photos by Mike Bonner.(7/14/95 -- 134K, 119K)
NBC News technical producer Richard Yeats puts the last of the curtains on the scaffolding in the street in front of the Union County Court House where TV media will be during the Susan Smith trial. Photo by J. Bryan Stiles. (7/9/95 -- 110K)
Blake Morgan , whose family owns businesses and property around the Union County Court House, drives a stake in the ground so that he can chain off a parking lot that he will rent during the trial. Photo by J. Bryan Stiles. (7/9/95 -- 89K)
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Susan Smith is escorted from the Union County Courthouse Friday, July 28, after the jury delivered a verdict of life in prison. David Smith discusses his reaction to the verdict outside his Spartanburg home. Photos by Dave Martin (Associated Press), Mike Bonner (Herald-Journal). (7/28/95, 108K, 142K)
Court-goers wait for a chance to get into the courtroom Wednesday to witness testimony in the Susan Smith trial. About 40 people were turned away. Photo by Mike Bonner. (7/26/95, 109K)
Susan Smith, center, is escorted out of the Union County Courthouse in Union, S.C. Saturday, July 22, 1995 after a jury delivered a guilty verdict in her murder trial. Sheriff Howard Wells is at right. AP Photo by Ruth Fremson. (7/22/95, 131K)
Defense witness Dr. Seymour Halleck, left, and Susan Smith's attorney David Bruck leave a restaurant in Union during their lunch break Friday. Dr. Halleck, a psychiatrist who examined Smith, testified that she said she considered throwing herself and her sons off a bridge before she drowned them. Photo by Mike Bonner. (7/21/95, 94K)
South Carolina State Law Enforcement agent Pete Logan arrives at the Union County Courthouse to testify Thursday, July 20, 1995, in the Susan Smith murder trial. He said Smith showed remorse, "probably the greatest I've seen in 35 years." Photo by Mike Bonner. (7/20/95, 76K)
Tom Findlay, center, the former boyfriend of Susan Smith, leaves the Union County Courthouse Wednesday, July 19, 1995, after testifying at her trial. Findlay testified that a few days before Smith drowned her sons, he wrote her that the boys were one reason their relationship could not continue. AP Photo by Mary Ann Chastain. (7/19/95 -- 89K)
Shirley Crask, who created a memorial to Alex and Michael Smith at John D. Long Lake, has placed a basket of stones nearby with the message, "Free Stones. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Crask says she now supports Susan Smith. See related story. Photos by Mike Bonner.(7/14/95 -- 134K, 119K)
NBC News technical producer Richard Yeats puts the last of the curtains on the scaffolding in the street in front of the Union County Court House where TV media will be during the Susan Smith trial. Photo by J. Bryan Stiles. (7/9/95 -- 110K)
Blake Morgan , whose family owns businesses and property around the Union County Court House, drives a stake in the ground so that he can chain off a parking lot that he will rent during the trial. Photo by J. Bryan Stiles. (7/9/95 -- 89K)