Alex Murdaugh GUILTY

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Not a big surprise.
 
I never considered him to be anything other than guilty. His story didn't add up, and his lies didn't help.
 
AverageJoe said:
I never considered him to be anything other than guilty. His story didn't add up, and his lies didn't help.
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He’s an evil guy, and I shouldn’t feel one ounce of sorrow for him, but I can’t help but feel badly for him, not because of his punishment, but for how he threw his life of away and committed the ultimate act of evil against his own wife and son. Shameful.

I grew up not too far away from the area where the Murdaughs are from. I understand the culture and people, and I don’t think he could live with losing the family name, prestige and privilege.
 
Huk said:
He’s an evil guy, and I shouldn’t feel one ounce of sorrow for him, but I can’t help but feel badly for him, not because of his punishment, but for how he threw his life of away and committed the ultimate act of evil against his own wife and son. Shameful.

I grew up not too far away from the area where the Murdaughs are from. I understand the culture and people, and I don’t think he could live with losing the family name, prestige and privilege.
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I feel bad for his surviving son...He's lost both parents now, and his brother. It's a shame that "daddy" didn't care enough to man up and do what he should have done to make things right.
 
AverageJoe said:
I feel bad for his surviving son...He's lost both parents now, and his brother. It's a shame that "daddy" didn't care enough to man up and do what he should have done to make things right.
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Between the boating accident, the millions in fraud from cheating customers, and his wife hiring a divorce lawyer, I guess he knew he was going to lose everything in bankruptcy and be looking at many years in prison, so he irrationally did what he thought could save his butt financially. Of course, the drugs probably didn’t help either.
 
I admit that I watched more of that tv trial than any other previous notorious spectacle. His boneheaded lawyer-brain hubris led him to get on the stand….pride leaders to destruction.
 
ALAYMAN said:
I admit that I watched more of that tv trial than any other previous notorious spectacle. His boneheaded lawyer-brain hubris led him to get on the stand….pride leaders to destruction.
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I have to disagree. Traditionally, three considerations are paramount when deciding if the defendant should/shouldn’t take the stand: previous criminal record, one’s demeanor, and the ability to not crack under pressure.

Regarding the first consideration, Alex had no (known) previous record. As an attorney and former prosecutor, he definitely had the ability to handle the pressure and not crack during any examination.
 
Huk said:
I have to disagree. Traditionally, three considerations are paramount when deciding if the defendant should/shouldn’t take the stand: previous criminal record, one’s demeanor, and the ability to not crack under pressure.

Regarding the first consideration, Alex had no (known) previous record. As an attorney and former prosecutor, he definitely had the ability to handle the pressure and not crack during any examination.
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I won’t spend too much ink here, but two points of rebuttal; 1) The attorney general said Friday that Murdaugh himself was the "biggest piece of evidence."

“When he took the stand, I think that was fatal for him ultimately," Wilson said. "Alex had made very successful career of giving closing arguments to juries and winning major cases and making a lot of money." Taking the stand "was his closing argument to the jury. I believe in my mind that he believed that he could talk his way out of this. And at the end of the day, I think that’s what sealed it for him," he said.

2) I watched a juror tonight speak about how close the jurors were to Murdaugh, close enough to see he never produced a single tear through the entirety of his testimony. That’s tears he wouldn’t have had to manufacture if he’d have taken the 5th.
 
ALAYMAN said:
I won’t spend too much ink here, but two points of rebuttal; 1) The attorney general said Friday that Murdaugh himself was the "biggest piece of evidence."

“When he took the stand, I think that was fatal for him ultimately," Wilson said. "Alex had made very successful career of giving closing arguments to juries and winning major cases and making a lot of money." Taking the stand "was his closing argument to the jury. I believe in my mind that he believed that he could talk his way out of this. And at the end of the day, I think that’s what sealed it for him," he said.

2) I watched a juror tonight speak about how close the jurors were to Murdaugh, close enough to see he never produced a single tear through the entirety of his testimony. That’s tears he wouldn’t have had to manufacture if he’d have taken the 5th.
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That might all be true in this case…but *traditionally* those are the considerations that an attorney weighs in deliberating that decision, which is why it’s seldomly prudent to have a client take the stand.
 
ALAYMAN said:
“When he took the stand, I think that was fatal for him ultimately," Wilson said. "Alex had made very successful career of giving closing arguments to juries and winning major cases and making a lot of money." Taking the stand "was his closing argument to the jury. I believe in my mind that he believed that he could talk his way out of this. And at the end of the day, I think that’s what sealed it for him," he said.
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IOW, Sin makes you stupid.
 
Huk said:
Between the boating accident, the millions in fraud from cheating customers, and his wife hiring a divorce lawyer, I guess he knew he was going to lose everything in bankruptcy and be looking at many years in prison, so he irrationally did what he thought could save his butt financially. Of course, the drugs probably didn’t help either.
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Drugs always cloud the judgment, especially for a wacko. My sister-in-law in Union, SC, and my nephew and his wife in Rock Hill have been following this case quite closely, and I can't remember which one knows some people who know the family. They stated that over the past couple of years he had started to go off the rails.
 
This phone call is obviously code, and not about hunting. Though it’s anyone’s guess what it means.
 
There was a report this morning on the news saying they're going after an indictment against the surviving son for a possible homicide that was ruled an auto accident a few years ago. It sounded like murder to me when it was mentioned in the trial.
 
AverageJoe said:
There was a report this morning on the news saying they're going after an indictment against the surviving son for a possible homicide that was ruled an auto accident a few years ago. It sounded like murder to me when it was mentioned in the trial.
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Buster Murdaugh was *rumored* to have a closet homosexual relationship with the kid who died (Stephen Smith). He’s denying everything right now, obviously. There’s also a mystery involving their longtime housekeeper who died “tripping over the dog.”
 
Huk said:
Buster Murdaugh was *rumored* to have a closet homosexual relationship with the kid who died (Stephen Smith). He’s denying everything right now, obviously. There’s also a mystery involving their longtime housekeeper who died “tripping over the dog.”
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Serial killers all....I can't believe these two. Did they really think it wouldn't come to light?
 
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