On a musky Easter night in 1991, a chance encounter between William Kennedy Smith and a local Jupiter woman at a Palm Beach nightspot would lead to one of the most heavily scrutinized rape trials in history. As one of the first nationally televised trials in the country, the alleged victim, with her face depicted as a blue dot as millions of viewers tuned in, would never imagine this case to turn into the movie-of-the-week date-rape drama. After a 10-day trial, involving a “he-said, she-

On a musky Easter night in 1991, a chance encounter between William Kennedy Smith and a local Jupiter woman at a Palm Beach nightspot would lead to one of the most heavily scrutinized rape trials in history. As one of the first nationally televised trials in the country, the alleged victim, with her face depicted as a blue dot as millions of viewers tuned in, would never imagine this case to turn into the movie-of-the-week date-rape drama. After a 10-day trial, involving a “he-said, she-