and three others would be murdered. my stomach dropped to the floor. my heart, everything. i really feel like everybody s life was taken because i told. smitty believes that bridget like jj hall and carl hawley got a deal in exchange for testifying against him. she got busted herself out in arizona and said she was driving a mercedes-benz 90 mile an hour, naked, and almost rear-ended an arizona state trooper. she had cocaine with her. i wasn t offered anything from the government. i decided to testify because smitty should not be out on the streets. he is a killer. despite bridget s testimony,
clive still felt the government s case was a sham, as illustrated by the additional murder they tried to pin on smitty. 9 government said through carl hawley that smitty had committed another murder and his getaway driver was another outlaw called junkyard. well, i say to smitty, who s this junkyard? and smitty laughs and says that s the outlaws dog. and it was just a farce. after nearly two months of trial smitty s jury was deadlocked. typically, this would have resulted in a mistrial and smitty going free. but the judge then gives the the jury an instruction, called an allen charge, which is basically you really need to reach an agreement if you can. it s a dreadful thing. it s just basically coercing jurors. faced with pressure to reach a verdict, the jury reached a decision in just two hours. when the verdict comes back
in, he s convicted of the five murders he s previously been aquited of and he s acquitted of the one murder he s never been tried for before. smitty s the only person in my experience and i think probably in the entire world who has been quatd of every single murder he s ever been charged with but is still serving the rest of his life in prison. clive feels the government abused their power to put smitty away. when the government uses that, they re trying to kill people. no less than hall and hawley killed people. that s what smitty was trying to say. they re trying to kill me. instead of using a bomb, they re trying to use those four witnesses. even though the battle in smitty s case was fundamentally unfair, i m the one who did the trial and i m the one who failed smitty, and that s something that i find quite difficult to live with.