Alex Murdaugh's defense lawyers seek to bar Orangeburg County Chief Deputy Kenneth Lee Kinsey from discussing “blood spatter on a white T-shirt Murdaugh wore the night his wife and son were murdered” in June 2021.
in a deliberate attempt to turn the spotlight away from a years-long scheme to swindle millions from his clients and law firm to keep his “fantasy persona of wealth, respectability, and prominence alive.” In addition to the murder case, Murdaugh separately faces dozens of financial charges and allegations he tried to stage his own murder in a twisted insurance scam.
Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection with the double homicide. His trial kicked off on Monday, where dozens of reporters descended on South Carolina for a trial that is expected to last several weeks.
The latest motion states that Kinsey concluded that he could not render an opinion on whether the bloodstains “were consistent with back spatter from a gunshot” after reviewing Bevel’s report and analysis. The South Carolina Enforcement Division’s HemaTrace testing results, the motion added, “confirmed the stains are not human blood.”
Defense attorneys argue that blood was transferred to Murdaugh’s hands and clothing that night as he “frantically checked [his family] for signs of life” after finding them at the crime scene. In a previous filing, the defense even noted that Kinsey was “unwilling to say that the T-shirt has any blood spatter.”
“Because blood behaves according to certain scientific principles, trained bloodstain pattern analysts can examine the blood evidence left behind and draw conclusions as to how the blood may have been shed,” Huff told The Daily Beast.
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