This is the 1st thing I thought about ....Does anyone remember this?
Spectator Who Yelled Out At Child Killer's Trial Won't Be Tried
SARASOTA, Fla. -- A spectator who yelled "Let's string him up now" during a child killer's sentencing hearing will not be prosecuted.
The State Attorney's Office dropped a resisting arrest charge Tuesday against Mario Vitali, saying it couldn't be proven he struggled with bailiffs after his outburst during the Dec. 1 sentencing hearing of Joseph
Smith.
Smith's abduction and slaying of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia gained national attention because the kidnapping was captured on a car wash surveillance camera and the
trial was being shown on a cable television network.
Hours after Vitali's outburst, the jury that had earlier convicted
Smith of murder, rape and kidnapping recommended that he be executed. Circuit Judge Andrew Owens is scheduled to sentence
Smith on Feb. 13.
Vitali, a 52-year-old circus marketing director, said Tuesday that he just got carried away as he listened to prosecutor Debra Riva describe in her closing argument how
Smith had sexually assaulted Carlie and strangled her from behind.
"When I got in that courtroom, I just exploded," he said. "When she went into graphic detail about what he did to that little girl, I just lost it."
Owens had Vitali removed from the courtroom and he spent eight hours in jail, but the judge never charged him with contempt of court.
Vitali said people shook his hand later. "I just said verbally what everyone was thinking."
Adam Tebrugge, Smith's public defender, said it's unlikely the outburst would be part of the "significant issues" that will be brought up in an appeal of Smith's conviction.
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