Husband Beats His Wife To An Inch Of Her Life, Is Set Free After Corrupt Justice System Says She Didn't "Consent" To Being Filmed

Story out of Vancouver, Washington:

A bloodied wife’s screams recorded by her husband’s cell phone as he beat her should not have been used to convict him, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, because she didn’t give her consent to being recorded.

John Garrett Smith of Vancouver, Washington, was found guilty of assault and attempted murder last year after beating his wife Sheryl to a bloody pulp and leaving her for dead. The conviction hinged on a key piece of evidence: a voicemail recording of Smith, who goes by his middle name, Garrett, telling Sheryl, “I will kill you.”

Nugent, the prosecutor on the case, is now in private practice and declined to comment on the case other than to say she disagrees with the appeals court’s decision.

The lurid crime became fodder for a Vancouver community already livid over alleged corruption in the city’s criminal justice system. This steadfast group of Smith’s supporters took to the internet to argue for his innocence—and his wife’s guilt. Cont.

Story from - The Daily Beast