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Before the jury was ushered in, both accused killers shuffled in their leg shackles to a table behind their lawyers, where they would sit beside each other throughout the trial. Efforts were made to shield jurors from seeing the accused in restraints. When Smich testified, the leg shackles were removed.

Smich was nearly always ramrod straight and still.

He usually rested his hands on the table in front of him or on his thighs. He sometimes wrote notes, occasionally folding one and passing it to one of his lawyers, who sat in front of him.

Occasionally his sister and mother came to court and he greeted them with a broad smile.

Millard was rarely as still and calm as Smich.

He made plenty of notes. Once in a while he could be seen doodling.

Late in the trial, Pillay asked for a court order to allow Millard to bring a Bible to court to read. It was a change in reading material. It was widely said behind the scenes that Millard read a book about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer on his way to court — but it was never seen in the courtroom.

Millard nodded frequently to people in court when he was arriving and leaving. He was particularly interested in the spectators in the last half of the trial when a blonde woman sat in the seats reserved for the defendants’ supporters. She read from a large Bible as she waited for court to start each day and refused to talk to reporters.

Once, early in the trial, an old man pushed his way to the front as Millard was being led away by guards. The man waved to Millard and Millard greeted him with a look of surprise and gave him a broad smile and thanked him for coming.