Since this website has been ongoing for more than a decade now, I thought it would be helpful for me to review why this site was created and review the beginnings of JohnLSmithLibel.com
John L. Smith and I go way back. We were “introduced” to each other when I was testifying as a witness in a case being heard in the Southern District of Nevada Federal Court. I put “introduced” in quotes, because the two of us were never really formally introduced.
John L. Smith showed up in the courtroom one day while the case was being tried, not as a reporter who you would expect to report about the facts being presented, but as an opinion columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper. Big difference. He, apparently, did not feel bound by the facts of the case, but offered his commentary based on his observations and based on information he was being fed by master manipulator and one-time Las Vegas Metropolitan Police detective, Tom Dillard (also known as Th