![]() Smith’s self-defense description of events was ridiculed Friday morning during arguments to the jury of eight women and four men by prosecutors Barney Giese and Margaret Scott. Crucial evidence in the prosecution’s case included prison surveillance videos from multiple cameras that showed a crucial two minutes leading up to McClary’s killing. Since Tuesday, prosecutors had put up eight witnesses the defense only one - Smith, 31, who took the stand Thursday and told the jury he stabbed McClary to death in self defense. Smith also received a 5-year sentence for conspiracy, to be served concurrently with the 40 years total for the first two charges. gave Smith a 45-year sentence - 30 years for the mob killing, to be followed by 10 years for possession of a weapon by an inmate. ![]() It was the first trial of any inmate charged in the April 15, 2018, Lee Correctional Institution riot, one of the nation’s deadliest prison riots in the last quarter century, and it featured stark testimony underscoring the brutality of prison life. The verdict - after less than an hour’s deliberation - came on the afternoon of the fourth day of a trial at Lee County’s 115-year-old courthouse in downtown Bishopville. Giese prosecuted Michael Smith on charges related to the death of one of the seven inmates killed in the riot.Ī Lee County jury on Friday found Michael “Flame” Smith guilty of being part of a mob that assaulted and killed fellow inmate Cornelius McClary in 2018 during a wild gang brawl in a deadly prison riot that killed seven inmates. Prosecutor Barney Giese holds up photos of a riot at the Lee Correctional Institution in 2018.
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