Washington Post: “The unrelenting aggressiveness that is his greatest strength is also Smith’s greatest weakness.”
“Alongside his legal victories — and there have been many in three decades of prosecutorial activity large and small (he once nabbed a birthday party clown turned stickup artist dubbed the Lotto Bandit) — his willingness to push into areas that more risk-averse prosecutors would not have touched has undone him more than once.
In some of his biggest cases — going after senators, a governor, a notorious cop killer — he reached for an outcome that he could not achieve.”