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Article: Murder Case Low-Key 2nd Time Around;Retrial of Loudoun Man Accused of Killing Wife Begins Minus Hype
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- The Washington Post
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- April 24, 1989
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When William (Bull) Evans-Smith was tried in 1985 on charges of
murdering his wife, the courthouse in Leesburg was crowded with
spectators who sat through more than two weeks of testimony and
waited out four days of jury deliberation with the tenacity of fans
in line for tickets to a Bruce Springsteen show.
Evans-Smith's retrial, prompted by a 1987 appellate court
decision overturning his conviction and five-year sentence, opened
last week to a sparser audience: a neighbor or two, his oldest
daughter, another daughter's father-in-law, a representative of
Loudoun County's victim-witness program and the judge's wife.
Some of Evans-Smith's celebrity status lingered, though. A
couple of ...