Alex Murdaugh's defense team will deliver closing arguments a day after prosecutors described the ex-lawyer accused of killing his wife and son as a “family annihilator.”
Jim Griffin, a Murdaugh attorney, told the court in Walterboro, S.C., that he expected to give roughly two hours’ worth of closing arguments. The jury, which has heard testimony from more than 70 witnesses over the past six weeks, will then head into deliberations. Griffin said that deliberations could begin as soon as Thursday afternoon in the case of Murdaugh, who is accused of killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, dead on June 7, 2021.
“If there is any reasonable cause for you to hesitate to write guilty, then the law requires you to write not guilty,” Griffin said. Griffin’s closing arguments follow the roughly three hours’ worth of closing arguments Wednesday from lead prosecutor Creighton Waters, who argued that Murdaugh’s motive was to delay and distract from the investigations into his financial problems. Invoking the
Also in his closing argument, Waters emphasized Murdaugh’s lying about being at the crime scene shortly before Maggie and Paul were killed. “In order to preserve the integrity of the process and the state and the defense in a fair trial, that juror will be removed and be replaced by another juror,” Newman said.The dismissed juror said she had left a dozen eggs in the jury room and needed to retrieve them, an announcement that produced a rare moment of levity in the trial. “We’ve got a lot of interesting things, but now a dozen eggs?” Newman said amid courtroom laughter before the start of the day’s closing arguments.
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