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William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician and a member of the Kennedy family who founded an organization focused on land mines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims. He is known for being charged with rape in a nationally publicized 1991 trial that ended with his acquittal.
Nov 13, 2009 · Opening testimony takes place in the highly publicized rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Jean Kennedy Smith, the president’s sister and a...
Aug 5, 1991 · The latest headlines erupted when prosecutor Moira Lasch disclosed that she had found three more women who would swear that William Kennedy Smith had attacked them. Even if their testimony is...
Apr 15, 2019 · William Kennedy Smith surrendered to Palm Beach police Saturday on rape and battery charges, then called his accuser’s harrowing account “an outrageous lie” when he faced the media on a...
Jan 2, 2015 · William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician and a member of the Kennedy family who founded an organization focused on land mines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims. He is known for being charged with rape in a nationally publicized 1991 trial that ended with his acquittal.
It was nearly eleven in the evening on March 30, 1991 when Senator Ted Kennedy, his son Patrick, 23, and nephew William Kennedy Smith, 30, left the Kennedy family's Palm Beach, Florida ocean front holiday retreat to go out for drinks at a popular bistro known as Ann'z.
Jul 11, 2022 · Remembering the 1991 William Kennedy Smith rape trial in Palm Beach County. The accuser was protected by an electronic blue dot while on camera in the courtroom, until the jury said, “not guilty.”
William Kennedy Smith Trial: 1991. Defendant: William Kennedy Smith Crime Charged: Rape Chief Defense Lawyers: Roy E. Black, Mark Schnapp, and Mark Seiden Chief Prosecutors: Moira K. Lasch and Ellen Roberts Judge: Mary E. Lupo Place: West Palm Beach, Florida Dates of Trial: December 2-11, 1991 Verdict: Not guilty
The William Kennedy Smith rape trial was a high-profile court case in 1991 involving the alleged sexual assault of Patricia Bowman by William Kennedy Smith, a member of the prominent Kennedy family.
Smith is accused of sexual battery, Florida's equivalent of rape, on a Florida woman at the Kennedy family estate on Easter weekend. Lasch's office on Monday said it would seek to introduce testimony from three women from New York and Washington, alleging that Smith raped one three years ago and tried to rape the other two in 1988 and 1983.
