![]() ![]() Katie Price is spotted driving her £60,000 Hummer 'using illegitimate reg plate' just two days after getting her licence back following two-year ban 'It's been a rough few days': Georgia Kousoulou and Tommy Mallet break their silence after suffering a devastating miscarriage while filming their show Kate Beckinsale shares her catfishing hell as she reveals men were duped into showing up at her HOME - and they even targeted her CAT Cliveĭame Edna comic Barry Humphries, 89, rushed to hospital after a 'serious' health setback as concerned family flock to his bedsideĪlec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are spotted out with four of their seven children in New York as the actor prepares to resume filming Rust after attending Coachella WITHOUT her rumoured beau Timothee Chalamet Kylie Jenner flaunts figure in a skimpy green romper. It took the jury just a few hours to convict him. All he did was blow snot,' Moyer said after the trial. Juror Craig Moyer said he saw through yet another lie. ![]() When he gave evidence, Murdaugh appeared to cry as he denied again and again that he killed his wife.īut jurors rejected his sob story. Prosecutors did not have the weapons used to kill the Murdaughs or other direct evidence like confessions or blood spatter.īut they had a mountain of circumstantial evidence, including the video putting Murdaugh at the scene of the killings five minutes before his wife and son stopped using their mobile phones forever. He also admitted he had lied to investigators about being at the kennels where Maggie and Paul died, saying he was paranoid of law enforcement because he was addicted to opioids and had pills in his pocket the night of the killings. Judge Clifton Newman gave a searing assessment of Murdaugh's 'duplicitous' characterĮventually, the lawyer took the stand to admit to stealing millions of dollars from the family firm and clients, saying he needed the money to fund his opioid habit. They also heard about Murdaugh's betrayal of friends and clients, his failed attempt to stage his own death in an insurance fraud scheme, a fatal crash in which his son was implicated, the housekeeper who died in a fall in the Murdaugh home and the grisly scene of the killings. He is currently being held in his own cell at the Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center, where he will undergo 45 days of testing before the South Carolina Department of Corrections decides where he should be permanently placed.ĭuring the trial, jurors heard from more than 75 witnesses and viewed nearly 800 pieces of evidence. ![]() Murdaugh has maintained his innocence and his lawyers filed a motion on March 9 to appeal his conviction. 'Then, of course, once the defendant takes the stand and testifies, then almost everything is fair game at that point.' 'ĭuring his talk on Tuesday, the judge said that he initially planned to rule that much of the evidence should be limited to the 'moment of the day of the murders'.īut he added: 'The lawyers, I ruled, opened the door to many other things by the manner in which they presented the evidence. Prosecutors said it pushed him to kill his wife and son.ĭuring the trial, Newman said the jury was 'entitled to consider whether the apparent desperation of Mr Murdaugh, because of his dire financial situation and threat of being exposed for committing the crimes of which he was later charged with, resulted in the commission of the. ![]() Murdaugh stole millions of dollars from his legal clients and law firm but his lawyers at the murder trial argued the jury shouldn't be told about that. He also accepted his decision to allow Murdaugh's financial crimes to be used in the trial was 'controversial'. 'But this murder scene was a remote area, remote, remote area, and it was easy for law enforcement to secure the scene and for for the jurors to go out and reflect on what they had been told through the testimony and shown through the testimony, through pictures and videos, to kind of look at it for themselves.' 'It ended up, I thought, being helpful to the prosecution and not to the defense, though requested by the defense,' said the judge. Newman also explained his decision to allow jurors in the trial to visit Murdaugh's ranch, where the murders took place. 'I was simply a judge in a trial doing my job, as I've done repeatedly over the years,' he said. Newman also shrugged off the international attention he gain during the trial. 'I don't believe that he hates his wife and certainly I do not believe that he did not love his son, but he committed an unforgivable, unimaginable crime, and there's no way that he'll be able to sleep peacefully,' the judge said. Alex Murdaugh with wife Maggie and their sons Buster (left) and Paul (right) ![]()
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