KINGSTON – After five days of testimony, a Roane County jury took three hours Wednesday to find former Knoxville insurance agent Shawn Smoot guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of his one-time girlfriend.
Smoot, 44, was left to wait one more day to learn his fate.
Presiding Criminal Court Judge Jeff Wicks sent the sequestered jury back to a local hotel Wednesday night after hearing victim impact statements from the mother and sister of Brooke Nicole Morris. The six-woman, six-man panel is expected to return this morning to announce Smoot’s sentence.
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