Frankfort Lawyer Charged With Trying to Put Hit on Wife
A Frankfort lawyer locked up in the county jail allegedly offered to pay as many as four inmates to kill his wife.
A Frankfort lawyer jailed for allegedly unleashing a brutal beating on his wife in a courthouse hallway was charged with offering to pay at least four fellow inmates thousands of dollars to kill the woman. It was unclear where attorney Robert Gold-Smith, 50, planned to get the money to pay for his wife's murder, as he told Judge Marzell Richardson he is broke, homeless and unable to pay for an attorney. Judge Richardson assigned a public defender to Gold-Smith's case during a brief hearing Tuesday afternoon. Gold-Smith will be back in court Oct. 17—both for the murder-for-hire case and the shocking allegations of viciously beating his wife, Victoria Smith, 45, outside a Joliet courtroom as they left a divorce hearing in November 2010. Gold…
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Jack Innhoff
10:47 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012
xiaohui123 1:39 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 it's over. We got the Chinese now. I thought they just shut down all those fake purse outfits in China. For a day or 2, I guess. lol.   more ›