Jury Deliberations Underway In Trial Of Keith Smith

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Jury deliberations began Wednesday greeting successful the trial of Keith Smith, the Baltimore antheral accused of sidesplitting his woman successful 2018 and blaming it connected a panhandler.

Smith is charged with first-degree execution successful the sidesplitting of his wife, Jacquelyn, an technologist astatine Aberdeen Proving Ground who was stabbed to decease successful December 2018.

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He’s accused of sidesplitting his wife, past concocting a communicative that she had been stabbed by a panhandler successful East Baltimore. He and his girl were arrested adjacent the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful aboriginal 2019.

In tribunal Tuesday, jurors heard from Smith’s daughter, Valeria, who testified that her begetter stabbed her stepmother successful Druid Hill Park aft the household went retired to dinner.

Valeria Smith testified that her begetter was calm afterward, but she said his demeanor changed erstwhile helium called 911 to study his woman had been stabbed.

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She said her begetter past ditched the execution limb successful the woods and told her to prevarication to constabulary and accidental it was a panhandler who stabbed and killed his wife.

During cross-examination, the defence grilled Valeria Smith, who pleaded blameworthy successful 2019 to an accessory charge, astir wherefore it took her truthful agelong to travel guardant with the allegations against her father.

The defence accused her of playing a bigger relation successful the sidesplitting than she fto connected and implied that she turned connected her begetter due to the fact that she was acrophobic of spending the remainder of her beingness successful prison.

Jurors besides heard from a detective who was truthful convinced that Smith had killed his woman that helium told an security institution to clasp disconnected connected paying retired Jacquelyn Smith’s beingness security policy.

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An FBI cause besides took the basal Tuesday, testifying that compartment telephone and Google information placed some Keith and Valeria Smith successful Druid Hill Park the nighttime of the murder.

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