LANCASTER, Calif. — A Southern California jury on Thursday convicted former Oakland Raiders defensive end Anthony Wayne Smith on three counts of first-degree murder, but the judge declared a mistrial for a fourth count.
The 48-year-old onetime National Football League star, whose original trial in one of the killings ended in a hung jury, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Los Angeles County Superior Court jury also found Smith guilty of special allegations of torture and kidnapping in the three slayings for which he was convicted.
Smith sat quietly next to his lawyer as he listened to a court clerk announce the verdict.