Elizabeth Smart went in face of the jurors Monday and told them about the 2002 kidnapping. This was the first day of testimonials in the federal trial of Brian David Mitchell, accused abducting a minor. Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped at knifepoint and was establish nine months after. Mitchell’s lawyer told the Slat Lake City jurors that his client’s actions were partial by a mental illness and, in addition to that, an extreme religious belief that he was doing God’s work at the moment of the kidnapping.
” His life here is marked by an intense idiosyncratic set of beliefs. This is, as you will see, a pattern with Brian, a search for a deep connection and a belief that he has found something that has given him a confidence and a meaning in life”, Mitchell’s lawyer argued. Elizabeth Smart’s mother remembers being awakened by her 9-year-old daughter Mary Katherine who told her what happened to Elizabeth that night:” She said a man has taken Elizabeth with a gun and that we won’t find her. He took her either for liberate or hostage” If found guilty, Mitchell will spend the rest of his life in jail.
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