# Jay C. Smith

Overturned · 1986

Jay C. Smith (June 5, 1928 – May 12, 2009) was an American high school principal in Pennsylvania who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1979 murder of one of his school's teachers, Susan Reinert, and her two children, Karen and Michael. His conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1992, based on findings of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct. Smith subsequently filed…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=4597826
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/jay-c-smith-w4597826

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