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Murdaugh/SC Murder Trial

qtlaw

qtlaw

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So disgraced lawyer who cheated his clients out of millions decided to testify today and admitted he lied to the police multiple times about his whereabouts the night of murder then says "I didn't do it."

I'd take my chances with a conviction now. How are we supposed to believe you now? You lied before why should we think you're not lying now.

Im not a defense attorney but that's an awful choice that client obviously decided to make on his own. Have fun in prison.
 
I had been lightly following this story for a while, but never really had all the details. The three-episode Netflix docuseries that just dropped this week was a perfect primer and done really well. What a forking horrible family, and with him as the father, no wonder.
 
franticscribe said:
I'm gonna guess his lawyers advised him not to take the stand and he couldn't help himself from doing it anyway.

I've never seen the "I was lying then, but I am telling the truth now" excuse go well with a jury.
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Seems like many times in situations like this with a gigantic, entitled ego involved, the defendant believes he or she can just explain away everything. They're psychotic, always blaming others, it's never their fault, whatever someone says can be explained away, and they believe they're always right.

Still can't figure out why the son and wife were murdered. To what end? And if he did it, and I think he did, you have to be a truly psychopatic, cold-hearted, mentally defective MFer to shoot your kid in the chest and then your wife.
 
The New Yorker article was outstanding in explaining this dysfunctional family. The part that boiled my blood was cheating the two kids of his housekeeper out a settlement when she "fell down some stairs" and died. They had half a mil coming to them and Mudaugh stole it all.

As one person who knows Murdaugh told New York:
"If Alex had just told the brothers he'd won them a twenty-five-thousand-dollar settlement, they'd have thought he hung the moon. But he stole every cent."
Alex even stood by as the bank foreclosed on the mobile home where Brian [one of the housekeeper's sons], a cognitively impaired adult, had been living on fourteen thousand dollars a year from a grocery-store job.
"The scope of Murdaugh's depravity is without precedent in Western jurisprudence," a lawsuit filed by the Nautilus Insurance Company states.

William Faulkner or Tennessee Williams couldn't have concocted this dark of a tale about a Southern family as this one.

The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders
 
Sweet Jesus. That's another reason I'm not going to put time into following this story. I hope karma absolutely crushes him though. Or the legal system.
 
I'm with what @SixToe said: Why did he murder the wife and son? I believe he did it, but the motive (for that) is unclear. I believe he had Stephan Smith (the openly gay high schooler) killed to quash rumors his son dabbled in bi sexuality, and I believe he and his wife killed Gloria Satterfield (the housekeeper) because she was an insurance payday. Wait, I guess do know his motive. Separate circumstances, but they each knew too much.
 
Twirling Time said:
MSNBC provided gavel-to-gavel coverage today for lack of a better term. They're in the post-game show now.

I have absolutely no interest.
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Exactly! I missed my daily dose of Deadline White House because of this and that made my commute was worse.
 
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