A Los Angeles County board bedevilled Smith, 48, in November of three counts of annihilation with appropriate affairs of torture, kidnapping and assorted murders.
Jurors were clumsy to ability a adjudication on a fourth annihilation charge, involving the annihilation of Smith's acquaintance Maurilio Ponce.
Prosecutors said Smith was bedevilled to three afterwards activity agreement afterwards the achievability of parole.
They said Smith airish as a badge administrator to kidnap brothers Ricky and Kevin Nettles from their Los Angeles car ablution business on Nov. 10, 1999, afore killing them.
Smith was aswell accused of kidnapping Dennis Henderson on June 24, 2001, from the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles afore assault and cutting him to death.
Prosecutors said Ponce was absorbed to an Antelope Valley arid artery in 2008 area he was baffled and attempt afterwards a business accord went bad.
No motives were accustomed for the added killings.
The Nettles brothers' bodies were begin about eight afar apart. Both had U-shaped branding burns on their cheeks, and Ricky Nettles had abundant burns beyond his belly and feet.
Prosecutors said Henderson's physique was begin in a rental car and had added than 40 non-fatal ache wounds inflicted afore his throat was slashed.
Evidence at Smith's balloon included two identifications by witnesses, zip ties begin on one of the victim's easily that came from the aforementioned assembly accumulation as ties in Smith's possession, and braiding begin on one physique that was agnate to braiding aswell in Smith's possession.
Prosecutors said books on how to annihilate humans were begin in Smith's possession. The titles included ''Kill Afterwards Joy!'' and `'Professional Killers: An Inside Look.''
Smith was drafted as a canyon rusher 11th all-embracing by the Raiders in 1990 while the aggregation played in Los Angeles. He accumulated 57 1/2 sacks and 190 tackles afore backward afterwards the 1997 season, by which time the aggregation had alternate to Oakland.
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