By JENNIFER DOBNER
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY – Elizabeth Smart waited more than eight years for the word she heard Friday.
“Guilty,” the court clerk said, after a federal jury deliberated five hours to convict street preacher Brian David Mitchell of snatching Smart from her bed, at knifepoint in the dead of night, and forcing sex on her while he held her captive for nine months.
Smart smiled as the verdict was read, while a bedraggled, bearded Mitchell sat at the defense table, singing hymns with his hands before his chest, as if in prayer.