Editing Susan Smith (section)

===Trial===
In 1995, David Bruck and [[Judy Clarke]] served as co-counsel for Smith.<ref name="Smith Trial">{{cite news|last1=Bragg|first1=Rick|title=Arguments Begin in Susan Smith Trial|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/19/us/arguments-begin-in-susan-smith-trial.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 19, 1995 |access-date=25 December 2014}}</ref> In their opening statement, Clarke argued Smith was deeply troubled and experienced severe depression.<ref name="Smith Trial" /> Clarke told the jury: "This is not a case about evil. This is a case about despair and sadness."<ref name="CNN" /> The defense's theory of the case was that Smith drove to the edge of the lake to kill herself and her two sons, but her body willed itself out of the car.<ref name="Smith Trial" /> The prosecution, on the other hand, believed she murdered her sons in order to start a new life with a former lover.<ref name="Smith Trial" /> It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict her of murdering them. During the penalty phase, [[Tommy Pope (politician)|Tommy Pope]], the lead prosecutor in the Smith case, argued passionately in favor of sentencing Smith to death. The jury ultimately voted against imposing the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]].<ref name="CNN">{{cite news|last1=O'Neill|first1=Ann|title=Lawyer keeps even the most loathed criminals off death row|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/12/arizona.judy.clarke.profile/|website=[[CNN]]|date=January 12, 2011|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref> Smith was sentenced to two concurrent life terms in prison in 1995 for the murders of her two sons. Smith's defense [[psychiatrist]] diagnosed her with [[dependent personality disorder]] and [[Major depressive disorder|major depression]].<ref name="trutv.com"/>