A criminal defense attorney said Donald Smith has likely been planning to do something like this since before he was ever sentenced to death in 2018.
It took five years for the case to go to trial, which ended with a unanimous death sentence and the 78-page appeal which cites multiple things in his trial that he argues invalidates his original conviction.Claims his lawyer “was ineffective for failing to identify, interrogate and strike a biased juror.”
Critical of mental health expert who testified that Smith was “the most dangerous pedophile she had ever met” “It’s very common to attack the lawyer’s strategy,” Plata said. “But what’s interesting in this case is the judge actually asked him if he was okay throughout the process and he agreed.”“But in this particular case, he had two of the best lawyers to defend him and they did an excellent job,” Plata said.
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