The defense team at disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial finally get their chance to present their version of events after nearly a month of testimony.
Doing so would allow him to explain some of the evidence prosecutors presented.
on video taken from the dog kennels there just minutes before his wife and son were shot. Their bodies were found near the kennels.in the weeks after the slayings even as other family members were worried that they, too, were potential targets.Defendants who choose to do so sometimes give jurors evidence of their guilt.he is awaiting trial for. Those include allegations that he stole millions from clients and others.
The defense has made Murdaugh's height an issue, suggesting he's too tall to have fired the shot that killed his son. The jacket was recorded as a large on the crime lab's evidence log sheet, a lab tech said under questioning from Murdaugh's attorneys.
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