Smart said he read from the book repeatedly during her captivity, often sang hymns and laced his conversations with religious language. Mitchell's lawyers maintain he is incompetent and suggested that evidence of his delusions can be found in his religious rambling and writings, including a 27-page manifesto he called 'The Book of Emmanuel David Isaiah.' In both the state and federal cases, experts have split over Mitchell's competency.
Last year, he was indicted on federal charges of kidnapping and transporting a minor across state lines. Mitchell is charged in state court with kidnapping and sexual assault. Mitchell's response to Smart's condition was 'He said that I was showing my true state,' she said, according to the Tribune's transcript. He let me lie face down in my vomit for the entire night until I woke up the next day,' the paper reports she said. 'There was a time when he gave me too much to drink, which I ended up vomiting all over myself. Mitchell also gave Smart drugs and alcohol to subdue her, according to the paper's transcript.
He said that, but it didn't stop him,' she testified, according to the Tribune. He said that if I did that he would never have sex with me again and I would be the most miserable woman in the world.
