William Trickett Smith Sr. (August 16, 1937 – March 20, 2021) was an American lawyer and the former chairman of the

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. In 1985, he was

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and imprisoned for

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and convicted of

theft Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word ''theft'' is also used as a synonym or informal shorthand term for some ...

by unlawful taking and

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in 2010. He was the father of William Trickett Smith II, convicted in 2011 of murdering his wife and dismembering her while in Peru. In 2012, Trickett Sr. was convicted of arson and insurance fraud while facing disbarment and investigation for taking funds from his clients estates. In 2014, he was again sentenced for conspiring to help his son escape by filing a false criminal complaint to have him temporarily

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from Peru back to Pennsylvania. Smith was one of the main prosecution witnesses in the trial of Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer. Smith later admitted in an interview shown in '' Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer'' that he had lied under oath in his own 1985 trial when he denied offering Dwyer a bribe. In the documentary, he maintained that his testimony at Dwyer's 1986 trial—that he offered Dwyer a bribe and that Dwyer accepted this offer—was truthful. Smith died March 20, 2021, in

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