Larita Smith claims she was not involved in brutal killing
Larita Smith is led into district court for a hearing at the McKinley County Court House on Monday. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — The question that jurors in the Larita Smith murder trial will have to decide is just how involved Smith was in the death of 18-year-old Colleen Lincoln on Dec. 23, 2010.

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