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After 10 days of wrenching, confusing and graphic testimony, it took the six-member jury only 77 minutes to find William Kennedy Smith not guilty of raping a woman at his family's Palm Beach estate last Easter weekend. The swift decision raised questions about the prosecution's case, which boiled down to pitting the accuser's harrowing tale of being pinned to the ground and violated against Smith's equally vehement denials. Many prosecutors would have dropped the case as unwinnable. Why then did State Attorney David Bludworth and Moira Lasch, his chief felony attorney, decide to press ahead...
...different man, she alleged, who slammed her to the ground, pulled up her skirt, pulled aside her panties, raped her and then said indifferently, "No one will believe you." As she was asked to provide more and more graphic details of the alleged rape, she fidgeted with her pearl necklace, rubbed her left shoulder, then broke into uncontrollable tears. No one gave her a tissue at first, so she wiped them away with her hands as the courtroom audience watched in fascination...
CREDIT: TIME Graphic by Steve Hart...
CREDIT: TIME Graphic by Steve Hart...
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