Jury Shown Graphic Images In Murder Trial For Keith Smith, Who Blamed Panhandler For Wife’s Death

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — On time 2 of the lawsuit of the State of Maryland versus Keith Smith, prosecutors painted the suspect arsenic a idiosyncratic who violated his wedding vows, stabbed his woman 5 times and past blamed her execution connected a panhandler.

The prosecutor, adjunct state’s lawyer Shaundria Hanna, called an adjunct aesculapian examiner arsenic a witnesser Thursday, who showed jurors graphic images of Jacquelyn Smith’s 5 stab wounds to the chest.

Two of those wounds were truthful bad, the witnesser said they penetrated each the mode done the thorax cavity and caused important injuries to the lung and heart. The injuries were “rapidly fatal,” the adjunct aesculapian examiner testified, which means Mrs. Smith would’ve died successful a substance of minutes.

In a 911 telephone played successful the courtroom, Mr. Smith could beryllium heard telling an relation “The feline came retired and killed my woman man,” helium said. “You’ve got to assistance me, they stabbed my woman man.”

Someone could beryllium heard crying loudly successful the inheritance during the 911 call. That idiosyncratic was perchance Valeria Smith, the defendant’s daughter. Valeria Smith pleaded blameworthy to accessory aft the information successful transportation with her stepmother’s execution and she volition attest against her dad, telling the tribunal that helium was the mastermind.

The authoritative said Mr. Smith took disconnected aft his wife’s execution and wiretapped telephone calls showed helium tried to publication a formation retired of the state to the Virgin Islands oregon Canada, but helium didn’t person a passport.

The authoritative said some Keith Smith and his girl were arrested 1,700 miles from Maryland adjacent the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mr. Smith’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender Natalie Finegar said his girl Valeria played a larger relation than she’s starring connected and that she was the 1 who gave detectives directions to a transgression country wherever nary grounds was found. The prosecution said the authorities volition beryllium that Jacquelyn Smith was killed successful Druid Hill Park and not adjacent the intersection of North Valley and East Chase Streets successful East Baltimore.

The defence besides wondered wherefore Valeria is testifying against her begetter now, erstwhile she had plentifulness of clip to travel guardant successful the past.

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Two jurors were replaced with alternates aft 1 idiosyncratic was exposed to idiosyncratic who tested affirmative for COVID-19 and different juror said they saw quality sum of the case.