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Susan Smith prosecutor explains why she didn't get life with no parole | Banfield

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Susan Smith, the mother convicted in 1994 of strapping her two young sons into the backseat of her car and rolling it into a South Carolina lake, is facing her first parole hearing. NewsNation’s Brian Entin is on the ground in South Carolina covering the hearing and speaking with those who lived through the case firsthand, including Tommy Pope, the prosecutor who secured Smith’s conviction.

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