Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> and asked who might be good as an analyst of Mitchell\u2019s collection of purported \u201crevelations,\u201d his \u201cBook of Immanuel David Isaiah,\u201d and that, in response, my name was suggested. \u00a0I don\u2019t know why, and I don\u2019t know who made the suggestion nor to whom, specifically, it was made.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nothing ever came of that, however, because Judge Judith Atherton, of Utah\u2019s Third Judicial District, determined that Mitchell was not competent to stand trial.<\/p>\n
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Much later, though, when federal attorneys decided to go after him, my name came up again, and I was, once again, asked to offer expert witness testimony for the prosecution, this time for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office. \u00a0I was, accordingly, deeply involved in Mitchell\u2019s competency hearings (which ran from October into December of 2009) and, a year later, in his actual trial (November-December 2010), testifying at both.<\/p>\n
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I remember thinking, after the declaration of his competence in the federal hearing (which I considered tantamount to his conviction) and even more so upon learning of the formal guilty verdict in his trial, that, if I never really accomplished anything else during my life other than helping to lock Brian David Mitchell away, that would still have been a worthwhile contribution, perhaps justifying my existence.<\/p>\n
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Posted from St. George, Utah<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Inquiring minds want to know! \u00a0 If I\u2019m not misinformed, a two-part documentary on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case will air on Sunday evening, 18 August 2019, on the \u201cHeadline News Network\u201d or HLN channel, which (as I understand it) belongs to CNN. \u00a0 \u201cThe Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart (Part 1)\u201d will appear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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