Texas A.G. Paxton Announces Guilty Verdict in Freddie Smith Capital Murder Trial
July 08, 2022
July 08, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas, July 8 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release:
Attorney General Paxton is pleased to announce on June 30, 2022, after six hours of deliberations, a jury returned a capital murder guilty verdict in the case of State v. Freddie Lee Smith. Former Austin Police Officer Vontrey Clark hired Freddie Smith to kill Samantha Dean for $5,000 because she was pregnant with Clark's child and refused to have an abortion. Clark and Dean had been i . . .
Attorney General Paxton is pleased to announce on June 30, 2022, after six hours of deliberations, a jury returned a capital murder guilty verdict in the case of State v. Freddie Lee Smith. Former Austin Police Officer Vontrey Clark hired Freddie Smith to kill Samantha Dean for $5,000 because she was pregnant with Clark's child and refused to have an abortion. Clark and Dean had been i . . .