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makayla said:
In my opinion I think we can agree (do I sound like DH there?) that the crime scene investigation was lacking in some areas. However, it does not negate all the other evidence, and as a juror it would not cause me to vote not guilty just because the CS investigation was less than perfect.
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Ewww those words make me all stabby hah. I do agree, between the inexperience and the special treatment afforded to the Murdaugh man, it was lacking in some areas. But, nowhere near beyond a reasonable doubt IMO. No crime scene is perfect.
 
10ofRods said:
That's a really interesting point. Opiates would, IMO, dull the sense of cunning (strategizing, working a scheme, conning, stealing, grifting, etc). Perhaps that's the reason opiates were his preferred drugs (his own attempt to avoid having to actual change his stripes, but instead to dampen down the irresistible urges that his genes gave him...to steal, deceive, etc).

Paul was about to be on trial for homicide, had an alcohol problem, was reckless, etc. BM cheated enough in law school to get kicked out. AM - well, we know what he's capable of. Sounds like there are likely more generations of antisocials on this family tree.

If PM and MM had found AM's main stash of pills, the ones he replenished from, he must have been furious. And out of control, mentally as the need to secure the means of his addiction became paramount. We don't know how many pills this was, but a "bag" had to be quite a few - his mental insurance policy, and it was Librium that he also had (I've seen two different versions of what the other pill might be), that would serve the same purpose. Indeed, some people take benzos in order to wean themselves off opiates, usually repeating a cycle.

He probably saw those as his "happy pills" that kept him from being a raging homicidal maniac from day to day.

JMO
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Do you think they talked pills that day, or was this just a plan he had already and it was business as usual for MM and PM?
 
arielilane said:

The defense calls its eighth witness, Barbara Mixson, one of AM’s mother’s housekeepers and caregivers. She is 71. Still cares for Libby Murdaugh. Mixson was also called out on Murdaugh’s roadside shooting confession video for (allegedly) selling Murdaugh pills.

Mixson testifies she knows AM as well as one of her kids. Griffin: Do you love him like one of yours? Mixson: “I sure do.” Mixson testifies Maggie was like a daughter and a friend. They spoke every day.

Mixson testifies she called AM on the afternoon of 6/7/21 to ask him to come by Almeda later on that day because his mother was agitated after Randolph Murdaugh III (her husband) was taken to the hospital. That call was at 3:58 p.m.

“She was crying a lot. I couldn’t get her to eat. She was just agitated," Mixson said of Libby Murdaugh.

Griffin elicits testimony from Mixson that she worked 6/14/21-6/16/21, around the time Shelley Smith says she saw AM carry a “blue something” into Almeda. Griffin: “Did you see a tarp opened up anywhere in Miss Libby’s house?” M: “No, sir.” Not on a rocking chair? “No, sir.”

Griffin: Have you ever seen a blue tarp laid out? Mixson: “I’ve never seen a blue tarp laid out at the house.” Mixson steps down.
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Coached! Shelley Smith's brother is in Law enforcement and very credible IMPOV! Sad they put her through this BS. Sadly, she depends on this job, and I am sure truly cares for at least some in the family. I'm sure she doesn't intend to be dishonest, but if someone repeats a story enough times, she will believe it too. MOO
 
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Although the defense harps on how much the defense experts are paid by the defense, we need to remember that all of the state's experts are paid by the state, and those employed by the state not only get paid, they get benefits.

Harpootlian mentioned in a pre-trial article that they had spend over $100,000 on expert witnesses. He kept mentioning how expensive it was to fly in the shoeprint expert. It doesn't look like they got their money's worth. I'm sure they spent some money on a blood splatter expert who wasn't needed, however. Somehow I keep thinking that AM diverted some of that to a private account.
 
Elliot_Alderson said:
That's what I figured, but it seems the state always points out how much they're being paid as if it's some slight against them or the case.
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Well, it certainly needs to be known. None of these expert witnesses would testifying out of the goodness of their heart and their appreciation of AM. And, I truly believe if you're a good shopper with a generous wallet, you can find an expert to say almost anything (like the mechanical engineer willing to postulate tiny assassins without full information on the movement of humans or the conditions of their bodies as they moved). I personally found it disgraceful that a mechanical engineer would even be weighing in on projectiles. And acoustics (I'd trust an Acoustics Engineer - or a Physicist who studies acoustics, but there's no particular training within a course of study of mechanical engineering that makes a person so generally expert on the things to which that man testified).

IIRC, being an expert witness was the man's main job. IMO, the best experts are ones known in their field independently and who only do the occasional gig in court. Everyone gets paid, of course, but getting a lot of money from one client is a big red flag, to me. I wish we knew more about that, in this trial.

JMO.
 
10ofRods said:
Well, it certainly needs to be known. None of these expert witnesses would testifying out of the goodness of their heart and their appreciation of AM. And, I truly believe if you're a good shopper with a generous wallet, you can find an expert to say almost anything (like the mechanical engineer willing to postulate tiny assassins without full information on the movement of humans or the conditions of their bodies as they moved). I personally found it disgraceful that a mechanical engineer would even be weighing in on projectiles. And acoustics (I'd trust an Acoustics Engineer - or a Physicist who studies acoustics, but there's no particular training within a course of study of mechanical engineering that makes a person so generally expert on the things to which that man testified).

IIRC, being an expert witness was the man's main job. IMO, the best experts are ones known in their field independently and who only do the occasional gig in court. Everyone gets paid, of course, but getting a lot of money from one client is a big red flag, to me. I wish we knew more about that, in this trial.

JMO.
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AMEN! Shady, Slimy, Underhanded use of someone Non Qualified in All they asked questions about.
 
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