I doubt Judge Newman forced this role on the foreman. My guess would be he took her aside and made sure she felt okay about it. He may have wanted someone with a certain vocational experience, background, or some other quality. I totally trust him. He has done this long enough to have his reasons. OMO.
Try to get a mind picture of him at 70 steps per minute hosing himself down with cold well water, throwing wet clothes in a cooler, wrapping the weapons in the rain coat, and cleaning up other evidence (did he have to run back to the house, too?).
I can get a picture of him shooting his son with a shotgun and the his wife with his custom made rifle. No problem. He’s the killer.Try to get a mind picture of him at 70 steps per minute hosing himself down with cold well water, throwing wet clothes in a cooler, wrapping the weapons in the rain coat, and cleaning up other evidence (did he have to run back to the house, too?).
Seventy steps per minute is more than one step a second.
In discussing the email from the jurors, Judge Newman was clear that he always chooses the foreperson and this case was no different. He left it by stating he knows it's done differently in other places but not in his courtroom.
Thanks for the link @AugustWest.
Meanwhile DH was trying to get him to state based on arm pit heat the deaths could have been btwn 8pm and 10pm. Killing me.
Yes it would be something to know.
I agree that a coroner should have some medical experience and don't think it fair to assume Richard Harvey did not have any medical training. His resume shouldn't be discounted. JMO
Link in the above story.Did somebody say Let’s Rock and Roll ?!
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If Waters comes off as obsessive about his job, you should see the work he puts into his rock-and-roll alter ego.
Waters has played guitar for decades, a fan of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in his youth before graduating to the more mainstream Rolling Stones and Drive-By Truckers.
For a few years until recently, he was the lead guitarist of Sole Purpose, a Columbia cover band that performs at weddings, parties and restaurants.
YouTube and Facebook are sprinkled with videos of Waters shredding solos at gigs or hourslong practice sessions, having swapped his suit and tie for a T-shirt and shorts.
Waters awed his bandmates with his ability to quickly learn new songs by ear, just as his colleagues at work marvel at his encyclopedic recall of facts and case law during court hearings.
Waters never talked about his cases with the band, due to the strict secrecy rules around state grand jury proceedings. But they could see how music helped him blow off steam from his day job.
That energy came out in his guitar work,” said Bennett, the band’s lead singer and Waters’ childhood friend. “He would channel it in his solos.”
Waters stepped away from Sole Purpose about two years ago as the band’s popularity grew and his work became more demanding, friends say.
That was around the time the state grand jury’s Murdaugh investigations began to heat up.
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Meet Creighton Waters, the Murdaugh prosecutor whose investigations toppled an SC dynasty
As chief prosecutor for South Carolina's state grand jury, Creighton Waters is known as a tireless investigator and legal genius with a zealous commitment to bringing justice to bad guys.www.postandcourier.com
This reminds me of Law and Crime reporter sitting near his sister, LMG, in the courtroom, and overheard who she suspected was one of her children asking LMG if she was aware of details being given during the testimony on Thursday and she replied, 'no.'
