Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders - Hardcover
Synopsis
Tells the story of a high school principal who was convicted of murder, served thirteen years in prison, and was released after a successful appeal
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About the Author
WILLIAM C. COSTOPOULOS practices law in Harrisburg. He was Dr. Smith's defense counsel.
From Publishers Weekly
Smith had been the principal of the high school in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Merion for 12 years when, in 1979, he was arrested and found guilty of two robberies. Searching his home, police found an arsenal of weapons (Smith was a colonel in the Army Reserve), marijuana and a collection of pornography. On the day he was sentenced, the body of one of his teachers, Susan Reinert, was discovered in a car in Harrisburg, Penn. Her two children are still missing and presumed dead. Suspicion fell on another teacher, William Bradfield, whom Reinert had named the beneficiary of several insurance policies recently taken out, amounting to almost a million dollars. Bradfield, who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and given three life sentences, claimed that Smith was the killer. Smith was then found guilty in a trial in which, according to Costopoulos, the judge permitted hearsay testimony, the police withheld evidence and witnesses perjured themselves. A state police investigator later admitted to accepting $50,000 from author Joseph Wambaugh as a consultant on his book on the case, Echoes in the Darkness. Costopoulos, Smith's lawyer, uncovered all this prosecutorial misconduct and obtained his client's release from prison after seven years on death row. Dubbing Smith "the strangest person I have ever come to know," Costopoulos has nonetheless written a sympathetic account that will convince readers that Smith suffered a miscarriage of justice. Photos not seen by PW.
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- PublisherCamino Books Inc
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0940159368
- ISBN 13 9780940159365
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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