Three jurors in the high-profile double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh tell TODAYShow that they don't believe he should have taken the stand in his defense and his emotions during his two days of testimony appeared manufactured.
The trial had drawn intense interest in a region of South Carolina known as the Lowcountry, where three generations of Murdaugh patriarchs werespanning a consecutive 87 years. The family's fingerprints have been on countless cases tied to the legal system in the Lowcountry, and Murdaugh had also been a part-time prosecutor who took part in trials in the very same courtroom where he would be convicted.
Alex Murdaugh is led to the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing on March 3, 2023 in Walterboro, S.C., such as a confession or video surveillance, that Murdaugh fired the guns used in the killings, and said state investigators had not located the weapons. Instead, their case against him was built primarily on circumstantial evidence and the premise that he had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his family.
In response, Murdaugh was called to the stand by his defense lawyers and said he had lied multiple times to investigators, admitting that he was dishonest about his location before the murders because of his longtime addiction to prescription pain pills and his general paranoia., lead prosecutor Creighton Waters seized on his change of story to question Murdaugh's credibility and proclaim he orchestrated an alibi.
Defense lawyer Jim Griffin reiterated that Murdaugh had lied about his actions and his addiction to pain pills, but called the prosecution's motive that he killed his wife and son because he was under financial pressure and about to be exposed for swindling money from his family’s law firm an"illogical" theory.
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