Bosma trial

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Mark Smich was asked over and over about where he buried the gun used to kill Tim Bosma while under cross examination today. Smich and Dellen Millard face first degree murder charges in Bosma’s death. On the stand, Smich has said he had nothing to do with the murder, or the plan and was not in the truck when Bosma was shot. Millard chose not to testify and his co-accused spent the whole day being grilled by Millard’s lawyer.

Smich really stayed on his message today, shock, paranoia, stress, words we heard over and over as he described how he felt in the days after Tim Bosma’s death. His story did not change today, for the most part he doesn’t remember the details. He did say outright that he is innocent.

Sometime before his sister’s wedding, Smich collected the gun from where he hid it in a washing machine in his mother’s garage. Then he got on his bike and rode out into the woods with a garden spade and a murder weapon in a bag. He doesn’t know which direction he took or how long it took to get there or where he went after he buried it, he told the court. He doesn’t know how big the spade was, or how he carried it on his bike.

“Was it a magical forest that gave you amnesia that night?” Millard’s lawyer Nadir Sachak asked.
“I was under shock, stress, paranoia, sir, I can’t describe the thoughts in my head at the time,” Smich said.
“That very gun could have 100% proof as to who held it when it fired,” Sachak said.

If Millard is the killer as Smich testified, why would he get rid of the evidence? Smich couldn’t answer. Nor could he say why he would tape the gun before burying it.
Smich says it was Millard’s gun and it was just sitting around Millard’s house when he decided to take a picture of him holding it.

Smich is back tomorrow morning for more cross examination by Millard’s lawyer tomorrow, then he’ll face one of the lawyers for the crown.