Dec. 14 Government Meetings
City Council
The Oak Ridge City Council will have a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the Municipal Building Courtroom.
Land Bank
Oak Ridge Land Bank Corporation Board of Directors will have a Regular Meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Municipal Building Training Room.
Housing
The Oak Ridge Housing Authority will meet at noon Wednesday in the Community Room at 76 Honeysuckle Lane.
Utilities
Planning
The Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission will have a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday virtually.
ANDERSON COUNTY
Purchasing
Purchasing Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Room 312 of the Courthouse in Clinton.
standard that shows that every firearm makes unique marks. as for the volatile relationship described in the order of protection, the defense pointed out that smoot never admitted to any of the allegations, and he was never charged. the order doesn t mean that mr. smoot ever did anything. it doesn t mean that mr. smoot admit thad he did anything. and the order of protection didn t prevent them from seeing each other, which they clearly did. miss morris told the judge that she wanted to have social contact with mr. smoot. jolly argued if brooke was so afraid of smoot, why would she keep seeing him? after all, phone records showed she was the one who called him that day. she conned to treat shawn as a friend, as someone she could do activities with. were you worried that could
if we didn t feel like we could prosecute it and be successful, we would have never indicted it or proceeded with it. circumstantial cases allow you to be creative. you can take a set of facts and weave a story together for your theory of prosecution. shaun smoot insisted he was innocent. he cycled through five different defense attorneys and the trial was delayed again and again. it was surreal. it took 22 times. robert jolly, smoot s fifth attorney believed the state s case was weak for one simple reason. i don t think that they did very shore row investigations of anyone other than mr. smoot, and
even his investigation wasn t thorough. jolly told the jury just how little that investigation had uncovered. there are no fingerprints. there s no gunshot residue tests. no dna tests, there s absolutely no evidence that links mr. smoot to it. they did state the evidence they had wasn t incriminating. the weapon he owned was the same caliber as the murder weapon, but there are however many million people in this country who own guns and this was a common weapon. the ballistics report showed there was no actual science behind it. there s no scientific evidence of that or any standards that show that. there s not currently a