The State of Alabama v. Brittany Smith
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This true crime documentary tells the harrowing story of Brittany Smith, a woman trying to use Alabama's stand your ground law as a defense after killing a man who brutally attacked and raped her in her own home and held her hostage in her home for days. In over 30 US States, including Alabama, state law makes it legal to use lethal force to defend oneself against threats or even perceived threats. However, the defense seems only to apply to white men. When invoked by women or men of color it rarely, if ever, succeeds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the psych legal pop podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. |
| 0:13.2 | And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.3 | And today we are going to talk about a documentary that we both just watched, although it's been out for a while. |
| 0:22.6 | Yes, I believe so. |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah, it's been out for a while because I remember hearing about it. |
| 0:27.5 | And I might have even watched it a while ago because it looks familiar. |
| 0:31.5 | But anyway, it's called State of Alabama versus Britney Smith. |
| 0:36.4 | And it's about a woman, a young single mother, living in |
| 0:43.4 | Alabama and... In Stevenson, Alabama. Stevenson, Alabama. Jackson County. Small town. And |
| 0:52.4 | she said the documentary starts out. We brittany kind of out in the woods and she says she likes |
| 1:00.4 | looking for rocks and fossils and crystals and she believes in crystals and healing powers and chakras so you know |
| 1:08.0 | it starts out very nice and And then it quickly gets dark. So basically, |
| 1:15.9 | I'm sorry, I don't have like what year this happened or anything. I don't even know if they, |
| 1:21.4 | did you write down what year this happened? Um, I'm sure I did when I got there in 2018. Okay. This happened on 1.15, January 15th, 2018. Okay. So that's the date of the murder. That was the day of the murder. Okay. Or stand your ground. A murder. Stand your ground day. Yeah. So she was arrested for murder because there was a man in her home who, well, I guess we'll talk |
| 1:55.1 | about how he got there. |
| 1:57.0 | This is just, long story short, a man was in her home. |
| 2:03.3 | She did invite him into her home, but then he, like, wouldn't leave. He ended up assaulting her, sexually assaulting her. Well, he |
| 2:09.4 | attacked her, assaulted her, choked her, and then also threatened her brother. Yes, and held her, almost held her hostage. Right. Like she could, when the attack was over, he wouldn't just leave. Right. He basically said to her, if you tell anybody, I'm going to kill you. And he was staying. So she was trying to figure out how to get away from him. How to escape. And we can tell you part of that story of how the brother then gets into it. |
| 2:35.1 | But at the moment of the murder, |
| 2:38.5 | this guy was choking the brother. |
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