Daniel Wayne Smith Inquest

Couple of things--

In May, 2006, Anna Nicole had won a ruling by the Supreme Court that said she had a right to pursue an inheritance from the late J Howard Marshall in federal court. Stern is suing the Marshall estate now on behalf of the Smith estate, and everyone is dead. He just believes if he hangs in long enough, Marshall’s estate will settle, which the family has sworn never to do.

On a side note, I would really like to know where Stern was and what he was after Anna Nicole went to South Carolina with Ford Shelley. Especially on June 23, 2006, when E. Pierce Marshall died unexpectedly of an odd aggressive infection. Stern, who never left Anna alone, had left her in South Carolina and Florida from June to sometime in July. He says he was working on the Supreme Court case. I do not believe him.

Not to mention that Daniel is hospitalized in California for one week in June due to back pain and Anna Nicole is not by his side? She stays in hiding from Birkhead. Not ringing true.

Was Eroshevich there? There is still the question of WHO sedated Anna to unconsciousness prior to her being released from the hospital after Daniel died. That’s unheard of. Sedate a patient and send them home?

Ray Marino never takes the stand. He’s the person Daniel was living with for his last year or so of his life and would know Daniel’s frame of mind better than anyone. One story is he claimed to have lost his passport?

The Private Investigator Daniel talked to also does not appear. I can see where a PI would not want to have to testify under oath--but it sure would have helped in this case. He wasn't hired--I don't know if that would make a difference.

It seems funny to me that Ford Shelley is convinced of Sterns guilt, yet his testimony could be interpreted to indicate that Daniel MIGHT have killed himself. Damn courts. People are only allowed to answer the questions without filling in the gaps.

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As he did when Anna Nicole died, Stern made odd phone calls during the emergency. He called Shane Gibson, Ben Thompson, and possibly Ford Shelley and Ben Thompson Jr. So that answers the question from the first day of testimony “who were all the men in the room trying to pry Anna off of Daniel?”