LANCASTER, Calif. — A Los Angeles County jury began deliberations on Wednesday in the murder retrial of former Oakland Raiders defensive end Anthony Wayne Smith, charged with killing four Southern California men over the course of nearly a decade.
The 48-year-old onetime National Football League star, whose original trial in one of the slayings ended in a hung jury, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.
Smith is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, including the 2008 shooting death for which he originally stood accused, as well as allegations that include torture and kidnapping of three other victims - two in 1999 and one in 2001.