Ex-Raider to stand trial for four murders, could face death penalty

Anthony Wayne Smith, the 11th overall pick in the 1990 NFL draft who spent eight years with the Raiders, has been ordered to stand trial for four murders and could face the death penalty.A Los Angeles County judge ruled after a four-day preliminary hearing that there is sufficient evidence for the 45-year-old Smith to stand trial. All four murder charges will be part of one trial, and the charges make him eligible for the death penalty, although the prosecution has not decided whether to pursue it.In April, Smiths trial for a 2008 killing of a man found stomped, beaten and shot in Southern California ended in a hung jury, with eight jurors voting guilty and four jurors voting not guilty. Now Smith will face a retrial for that killing and also stand trial for the 1999 shooting deaths of two brothers, and for the 2001 stabbing death of another man.READ MORE AT ProFootballTalk.com