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I just don't understand why his law partners didn't think that Alex's stealing funds could have had something to do with why the murders happened. This witness said he was calling clients to ask if they knew anything and he was trying to figure out what happened and who could have done this and if any of the other partners or their families were at risk.. Why didn't they tell SLED about Alex's financial dealings that night? It literally came to a head that day when Alex was confronted with this and then they just decided to table it because Alex's wife and son were murdered? Did anyone not think maybe what Alex had been doing was the cause of the murders?
 
Luna20 said:
Why why why would you even entertain using Clorox at a crime scene?!? This guy specifically seems planted now and on the scene. He is an AM groupie and it seems like he has done something sketchy that AM is holding over him. Why else would he strategically answer ‘the way’ the defense wants him to?
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My first thought was fid Alex call and ask for that.
 
Seattle1 said:
Approaching the 4 year anniversary of the boat crash and Mallory Beach's death, it's hard to swallow that PM's case was on the s l o w track for no other reason than his name while the victims of the crash were continuously maligned. It's all so very cruel. JMO
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As he's been in Jail for the Financial crimes, I wonder if it's possible the AG was trying to figure out what would be prosecuted first. So many crimes, and different courts to handle them??
 

Griffin ends his questioning. Prosecutor Creighton Waters rises for cross-examination. First question: Waters: “He was pretty good at hiding who he really was, wasn’t he?” Ball: “Obviously.”

Waters: “You just testified you didn’t really know this man, did you?” Ball: “Obviously I did not.”

Ball said he didn’t see the 8:45 p.m. kennel video until a month or two ago. But he has no doubt that Maggie, Alex and Paul’s voices are on that video. He doesn’t need to hear it again.

Ball testifies he spoke with AM several times before a big crowd got to Moselle, “trying to figure out, do you know anything, do you have any idea who did this.” He wanted to know for the safety of the Murdaughs and for the PMPED firm.

Ball on AM on the night of 6/7/21. “He was very upset, obviously.” But he was answering the questions. He was able to make sentences. He denied going down to the kennels. AM said that he ate dinner, lay down on the couch, took a nap and then went to check on his mother.

Ball testifies AM told him that story “at least three times.” Waters: “He was always clear that he never went down to those kennels?” Ball: “It was the same version of it.”

Ball testifies AM’s story changed over time as to whether he checked Paul or Maggie’s body first. One time, he said he checked Maggie first. Then he would say he checked Paul first. Ball notes AM seemed traumatized. He didn’t think much of it.

Ball says he and his colleagues were very focused on finding out who killed Maggie and Paul. Waters points at AM. “He was not, was he?” Ball: “I have said that. But I don’t know, Mr. Waters, how I would respond” in that same situation.

Ball: AM never talked with me about wanting protection for Buster. But on the Fourth of July, AM came to Ronnie Crosby’s house and brought a pistol in a bag, which was unusual.

Waters walks Ball through testimony about the power and influence the Murdaugh family held over the past century as they ran the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office and a powerful law firm.

Randolph Murdaugh III, AM's father, was still an assistant solicitor when he passed away on 6/10/21, Ball says. AM was one too. He had a badge, keeping it on the corner of his dashboard, Ball says.

That family legacy was “very important” to AM, Ball testifies. AM talked with Ball at times about wanting to run for solicitor.

Ball testifies SLED agents were polite and respectful as they searched Moselle in the 24 hours after the slayings. Waters: They were delicate and respectful of the grieving family, weren’t they? “In looking back, they probably were too much,” Ball testifies.

“He was an obnoxious user of the cellphone,” Ball testifies of AM’s habits. “I would think it would be unusual to Alex to go anywhere without his phone.” Prosecutors are trying to show AM planned to kill Maggie and Paul if/when he left his phone at the Moselle house that night.

Ball: “Alex was a very good lawyer. He got good results for his clients. He could look at a set of facts” and figure out how to tackle a case, where to push and where to not push. “He was very good tactically.”

Waters: “(AM) effortlessly and easily lied to you for years, and you didn’t know it.” Ball: “Didn’t know it, and didn’t catch him. The way he was doing it was very, very cunning.”

Pretty much all of AM's former colleagues/friends/relatives/associates are going to be double-edged swords in this case. They can all provide as much damaging material as helpful stuff, under the right questioning.

Even before the September 2021 discovery of AM’s thefts, the law firm confronted AM a number of times about misspending and other issues, Ball testifies. In 2018, AM cashed a big check that was meant for his brother.

Ball: AM also had to be confronted repeatedly about spending his firm credit card on personal expenses, including tuition for his sons. “He just wasn’t a very good rule-follower at all,” Ball testifies. Waters: “He would pay it back, and people would move on.”

Ball: We consciously decided to put the inquiry into the missing $792K in legal fees on hold after the 6/7/21 slayings. “The man just lost his wife and child. There’s no way we’re going to be cruel. We’ll get back to it later. And we did.”
 
It doesn't seem like the defense got this witness to prepare over the long weekend. He had some great testimony about the sloppy crime scene. Now, he is hammering AM. Somebody on the defense goofed. He should not have been their witness. JMHO.
 
It would seem that if a smart and educated person realized that they, and others in the family, had a habit of just leaving guns at places they went to then they would do some correcting with the family gun rules.
 
At this point I cannot tell what is real, who is being genuine, to what extent gaslighting and manipulation is occurring. This is a defense witness, but sounds like a prosecution witness.

What is happening? Is this all some sort of grand scheme? I don’t trust the defense as far as I could throw them. I agree with what someone said above. I can’t wait for this to be over.
 
When a projectile passes through a human body, it is not passing through air. Its direction will be changed by what it hits inside that body. All soft tissue? One thing. Bone? Something else.

If the person is moving at the time they are shot, the bullet will very briefly move with them. That's why one needs to factor in the body, its movement and the trajectories of the projectiles that went through the body.

No use of applying geometry when the calculus of a human body is also involved (and the shooter could be moving too). The laws of physics and math still apply, but when there are moving, varied-quality obstacles in between a projectile and its eventual resting place, one needs to know what those variables did to the calculation.

IMO.
 
Chelly said:
I am having a problem finding out how many guns were in the Murdaugh gun-room. Does anyone recall? TIA.
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Iirc it was 20 plus, but with three ppl shooting and the different applications, deer to duck its not really that many.

Hubby had more than that before he started downloading.

Hunter/instructor at one time.
 
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