A LA County judge ordered that Anthony Wayne Smith must stand trial for four murders. Smith was a defensive lineman who played eight years in the 90's for the Oakland/LA Raiders.
Judge Lisa Chung ruled, after a four-day preliminary hearing, that there was sufficient evidence for Smith to stand trial for the killings that came in a nine-year span beginning the year after he left the NFL. Smith had already been tried for one murder that occured in 2008, the murder of Maurilio Ponce, and is currently awaiting a retrial. Along with the murder of Ponce, Smith will now also be charged with the murders of Kevin and Ricky Nettles, brothers found shot to death in 1999, and the 2001 killing of Dennis Henderson, who was found stabbed to death in a rental car. The cases will be combined into a single tiral and the case will return to court for a hearing on October 29th.
This is definitely a sad ending to an individual who didn't know what to do with himself after leaving the league.
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