Smith used to be a staff attorney assigned for handling prisoner matters before federal judges in Syracuse. While he is no more employed by the court, he is also facing an appellate court review of his license to practice law. That may be affected by his misdemeanor conviction and sentence.
While Assistant District Attorney Jeremy Cali submitted before Lysander town Judge Charles Mantione the crimes committed by Smith who had engaged in repeated sexual contact with the 10-year-old boy, records show that the plea deal was worked out between the attorneys even before charges were filed against Smith.
During the sentencing, the mother of the victim, however, berated Smith by telling how her family and that of Smith's had been friends for years and how Smith had betrayed that trust by abusing her son.
Smith would be required to register as a Level 1 sex offender, and there would be no jail time.
