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PARKS: Oh --
2 A. You're asking me --
4 A. You're asking me --
16 14-year-old girl.
17 A. There you go. No. What you asked was, what does
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1 MR. PARKS: And I'm calling bull shit.
4 out.
7 I see you sitting back there, you know, and spinning all of
10 you snuck in the bedroom during the middle of the night while
12 hold a knife to her throat and say, you're coming with me.
14 much more simple than that. This is about what you wanted.
16 with you through thick and thin. But she's a little old.
19 used to be.
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1 MR. ROSS: From a woman.
3 with you, and you can talk to her and she'll obey you, and
4 she'll believe you and she'll follow you, and she would make
10 it's false.
19 together; is that not right? What God has put together, let
24 blasphemy God.
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1 MR. ROSS: So --
4 virgin. Pure.
13 14.
22 all.
25 to know. So --
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1 MR. PARKS: So did Elizabeth show up in your camp
4 came to be.
9 very hard.
11 hard?
24 A. I can just imagine why she would say the things you
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1 MR. ROSS: No. No. We simply asked her, where
8 out there. She told me that you, not anyone else, not anyone,
9 but you appeared in her bedroom and held a knife on her and
10 took her out of the house under threat of harming the family,
11 and that you walked her to a campsite where Wanda was, and
12 that you tethered her, kept her for days. You and Wanda
18 using intimidation.
24 arm of a friend.
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1 what you did to Elizabeth?
6 question.
18 go back again.
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1 campsite. She says you got into the bedroom and took her
2 there.
5 preplanned that she knew about it ahead of time and had her
6 bags packed.
10 accusations.
12 the Lord?
14 accusations.
15 MR. ROSS: Did you get her to believe any? Did you
20 your wife.
24 that you're a servant of the Lord and she should have sex with
25 you and she should be your wife and that she should bear your
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1 children and she should be sealed to you?
3 that.
19 everything is clear.
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1 MR. PARKS: I know the song, too, Brian. I like
6 tethered up.
13 (Time lapse.)
17 Immanuel.
23 here while you hide in your song. And when you're done
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1 forever.
5 (Time lapse.)
7 photos.
24 note.
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1 (Mr. Parks returned to the room.)
5 you want.
13 just get the whole thing of you. Step back just a little bit
22 In fact, why don't you just step this way a little bit so we
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1 scars or anything like that?
2 A. No.
5 side.)
12 (Defendant is singing.)
16 We're onto it. We've got to find a way to crack this new
17 defense mechanism.
20 how you're not to harm them. And, Brian, I'm just wondering,
21 are you going to tie a millstone around your neck and jump in
22 the lake like the Lord commanded that you should do? If you
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1 against a child, Brian.
5 Brian, ever.
14 Satan.
15 MR. PARKS: I'm not Satan, and I'm right here. I'm
16 Cordon Parks.
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1 MR. PARKS: You have no power.
6 no power over me. You have no power over anybody. You are
7 not a servant of the Lord because you have sinned. You have
13 come back to the secular world for a few minutes, and you have
15 actions.
19 were dark.
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1 You don't speak for Jesus Christ. You have done things that
8 actions. And if you don't think that you were doing anything
11 fraud and done all kinds of things because you haven't been
14 the judge.
18 can out wait you on this. So we're not going away, and you're
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1 live wherever you want to go live.
4 frankly, they make you look really, really bad. They do. I
6 really no question about the motive for it, and there's just
12 proclaim that you have done nothing wrong, even though what
18 your own actions and that you have no explanation. And unlike
19 a true servant of Jesus Christ who can stand up and tell the
20 truth and answer further actions, you cannot. You cannot tell
22 fraud. Deep down in the core of your being, you know that you
23 are just a loser. You're just a loser, and you can't make it
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1 MR. PARKS: And will take a virgin out of her own
2 bed at night and wanting to force her to have sex with your
9 A. I love you.
11 A. I love you.
13 A. I do love you.
15 seriously.
24 earth. That power only belongs to God. You don't forgive me.
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1 grant it. You think you are morally superior because you
2 convinced yourself that the Holy Ghost speaks to you and only
4 have deceived yourself. Let's face it. You have a loser job
8 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
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1 father. You're just nothing, Brian. You're just a loser.
7 Brian.
8 A. (Unintelligible).
15 MR. ROSS: And they don't and they don't and they
18 directly.
23 the Bible.
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1 MR. ROSS: Any time somebody asked you really
2 difficult questions off the Bible, you quit your job and move
5 bit. Talked to your own children about you. I feel bad for
10 Jesus Christ when your actions speak louder than your words,
13 MR. ROSS: Brian, can you open your eyes here for a
14 second here? Come on, just for a little bit. Don't open them
15 and say, I love you, because, you know, it's too gushy for me.
19 through hell since June 5th? And tell them that God delivered
21 delivered her to --
25 tell them?
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1 MR. PARKS: You know, the reason that we know that
3 your words. The burglary in San Diego, you gave a bad name.
4 You told them your name was Johnson, Michael Johnson. The
5 date of birth you told them is one digit off from every digit
15 want to get in your head and have you tell us what you were
16 thinking and what happened and why you did what you did. It's
17 your story to tell. I've got to tell you right now, it's not
20 prison. And I know right now, that doesn't seem much to you,
23 food.
25 that interview, too. You think Wanda wants to spend the rest
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1 of her life in prison? You think she's going to fall for this
4 months and how you engineered this whole thing and planned it?
8 point in time your wife was probably jealous that you were
19 have her even born on this earth unless it was to deliver her
23 try and hide behind your closed eyes. Now you can't, okay.
25 God doesn't talk to you. The Holy Spirit hasn't told you to
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1 do anything. You took this girl because of your own lust and
3 and against the laws of the state of Utah, the United States,
4 and you've done terrible things. I mean, the only thing you
5 can do is hide behind your closed eyes, you know. It's not
14 than we are.
17 you cannot order me to get behind you and get out of your hair
22 have that power over Elizabeth that whole time, that whole
23 nine months.
25 just run away at the first opportunity, okay. But you just
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1 latched on to one that because of her good LDS upbringing was
2 very obedient and easy to brainwash. Now your luck has run
3 out.
7 closed eyes and be a martyr? Martyrs, you know, it's too good
14 that are just too painful to talk about here. He's just
17 your life is different; it's not moving on; right? You do?
19 that he's already been delivered and he's not able anymore --
21 the rapture has not happened. God has not taken you to
22 heaven. You're still in this room with me and Jeff here. You
23 cannot escape. God is not going to save you because you have
24 not been subservient to God. Not the true God. You're just a
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1 us. There's no protection from us.
7 something that you did to satisfy your own sexual lust for a
8 14-year-old girl?
11 and he knew about it, and he failed to tell us? You failed to
15 held in prison.
21 you weren't man enough to step forward and admit your actions.
22 You could have saved Richard Ricci at any time. At any moment
24 and saying, here she is alive and well. But, no, you let him
25 die. You let an innocent man go down and die for your
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1 actions. And for what? For what, Brian? Because of your
8 mind.
16 bishops.
23 no, we don't have any respect for you, Brian. And I don't
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1 rational explanations for your actions, Brian.
5 way, we'll sit here and wait you out past dinner.
6 (Time lapse.)
12 who's got the whole Salt Lake City Police Department and the
13 FBI just waiting to hear what you have to say. That's pretty
15 comes down to. It's not consent. It's not, you know, oh, I'm
18 out in the woods with her. It's not that. It was all about
19 power. Otherwise you could have just knocked on the door and
20 say, excuse me, Mr. Smart, but I think your daughter wants to
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1 that. It all comes down to Brian David Mitchell, a homeless
6 everything. But, boy, for that nine months you were king.
7 You had a 14-year-old girl at your beck and call. But she
8 didn't come willingly. You had to tie her down, put a knife
11 your stuff, for your actions, you sit there. You sing church
13 pretty powerful.
20 MR. PARKS: You don't know your hymns. You run out
21 of the verses. After the second verse you don't know the
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1 never changes. It never changes.
3 there with your eyes shut and pretend we're not here.
5 yours are worse. Do you think you're the only guy that we've
7 pedophile we ever sat down with and had a long chat with?
8 MR. ROSS: And ask how many kids they've had sex
12 not. You're just not. You're not special, Brian. This bull
13 shit about the Holy Spirit talking to you and commanding you
22 the Holy Spirit doesn't talk to you, Brian. You know that.
25 person because you like having sex with young girls. But the
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1 only way you can defend it and kind of move on without tying a
7 because Jesus said, by the fruits I shall know them and know
8 what they are. Good trees bring forth good fruit; bad trees
11 you brought forth are two rather large felonies under the
19 jury of your peers and try and say that you are deluded into
20 thinking you were doing the right thing, and maybe that will
25 and you gave a bad name and a bad date of birth. The Sandy
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1 police stopped you at State Street up by the graveyard, and
2 again, you gave a false name and a false date of birth to try
7 bring your ass down here, and then you climb up on your high
8 horse and try to hide behind Jesus Christ and scripture, but
9 you don't know your scriptures that God damn well. And you
16 about, you know, about why you are who you are and why you did
17 what you did. You won't answer the most direct and easy put
21 You stand convicted in the eyes of God and in the eyes of the
25 and that's why you're hiding behind your closed eyes and your
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1 stony silence. You just, you have no explanation.
6 to get behind you, and here I am in your face, and you know
7 now that you don't have any authority of God. You're just a
8 man like anyone else, okay. Not a very good one at that.
13 MR. ROSS: Why did you come back to Salt Lake City?
14 How about just answering that, Brian. Why did you come back
18 June 5th. Why did you come back here? Was she getting to be
19 a pain in the ass? Huh? Two women, too much of a pain? Too
20 much nagging?
22 when I said that. Women can be tough to live with. Two? You
24 an answer. Why did you come back to Salt Lake City? Come on.
25 Why did you come back to Salt Lake? Huh? Did you come back
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1 to Salt Lake because you wanted her to go back home? Huh?
4 hope that she was back home with her parents and school and a
8 from you, I mean, the very second, I sat down with her in
9 Sandy and she started to give you up. She gave you up. She
10 didn't hesitate. And you know what she thinks of you? She
11 thinks you are a child rapist. You took her virginity from
12 her. You took her out of her own house away from her own
13 family and did the most vial and unspeakable act a grown man
15 doesn't like you. She's talking about you right now, okay?
18 doesn't like you at all. She found you actually rather smelly
19 and disgusting. You know that, Brian? Your family for all
23 Shearjashub.
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1 is --
6 would happen when the gravy train came to an end and the
7 police finally got onto him, because I'm sure even in your
8 thinking, Brian, you know that the good times wouldn't last
9 forever.
15 and told the truth whenever you were contacted by the police,
16 you know, the jury would have believed you. But since you've
23 MR. ROSS: It's done. Wanda has given you up. She
24 obviously didn't like the fact that nine months, you know, he
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1 MR. PARKS: I brought Elizabeth down with her dad.
2 They road in the back of my police car all the way down here.
3 You know, they sat there and cried together all the way back.
5 was so happy that she no longer ever has to see you again as
6 long as she lives. She never has to touch you again. She
7 never has to smell your foul body odor. She never has to lie
8 with you.
20 to jail from here on. You're never, ever, ever going to get
21 out. You are going to die in prison. Does that mean anything
24 God. You're going to die a very miserable and lonely old man
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1 about you. Is that what you want?
9 Elizabeth Smart.
18 say.
20 Instead of being --
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1 force. I mean, there's 14-year-olds out there that will lay
6 kill her, threaten to kill her little sister and drag her out
9 that doesn't make you any more pure, Brian. That just makes
10 you that much more sick. Sick, Brian. You've got to have a
16 go.
22 be able to put your hands on her again, and you'll spend the
24 don't think I'll burn in hell for it. I think my patriot and
25 saint, Saint Michaels is, you know, going to look down upon us
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1 and say, good job. There's not going to be any shame or
5 don't know what day it was going to be, that you would
11 blonde hair angel who played the harp, that lived in a nice
12 house that you worked at. And you said, remove her from
13 Babylon.
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