Don Hudson: Elizabeth Smart

It doesn't matter who's testimony is given in the Smart case. He is guilty and he will be found guilty. They could sit in that court room for weeks and say nothing and he would be found guilty. He was guilty from day one a judged from day one. They should have video recorded Smarts testimony and shelfed it. Put him in prison until he cracked and showed signs of being sane. Even if it took 10+ years or more. They want him in prison so he would be there anyway. They could keep him monitored by professionals and have him attended to mentally. And only then when he shows signs of acting like he is sane then bring him to trial. This is an act just to try and get his way. He's stubborn not stupid. I know that Smart needs to move forward and it looks like she has done that and her testimony is the final phase for her. But, I speak from experience I was able to close that chapter of my life after 25 years. You heal but you don't forget it is part of your life until you lay down and close your eyes forever. He needs to sit in the court room and feel the full impact of his actions. Everytime he is removed from the court room he is getting his way and he knows it. He will pay for his actions with his sentence but,he will have protected himself from the everyday out come of sitting in the court room to protect his mental self. He won't dream or think what was said in the court room. He will just protected his memories of the control and memories he has been able to see in his head for the past 8+ years of being in control of Smart. Those are the memories he wants to lack of a better way of saying keep pure in his mind. And if he is forced to sit in the court room and not in a T.V. monitored room his mind will be altered. His memories become dirty and wrong to him. I feel that this case should have been moved far away from Utah. Because everyone here knows he is guilty and he will not be given a fair trial here under the guide lines of the constitution. Innocent till proven.