I was lucky to be assigned to the south door, where for the last time, kidnapper and rapist Brian David Mitchell would exit the Federal Court following his sentencing to life in prison. We should these entrances and exits repeatedly over the past year or more, but to me this was the best one. He’s coming right at us, the look on the marshall, and the breeze playing with his beard and hair.
After that I ran around to the front and found a different angle to Elizabeth Smart and her father Ed speaking to the assembled media horde…
