Victim's relative: Sentence a 'mockery'
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
NEWPORT - Over objections from the victim's brother, David Lee Smith was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for helping dump the body of his slain brother-in-law along the Licking River.The brother, Kenny Hafer, told Campbell Circuit Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward that the sentence was "making a mockery of the law."Ward responded that she had no reason to believe anything illegal,...