VERDICT WATCH SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #37

[Snoopster]

I respectfully must correct you because it’s a pet peeve. The jury can’t find him innocent. They could find him not guilty. They’re not the same thing (reasonable doubt).

Absolutely. I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing that out. It's an important distinction.

 

[Regal Beagle]

'Gotta be tough on that alternate to have to hang around. (But, I understand the legal reason as to why it was requested).

Especially with this lot!

 

[Tippy Lynn]

Unless there's direct proof I struggle going with a guilty verdict. I would make a terrible juror.

 

[QB2022]

I think I'd cry if I were thr 13th one! Karma for the blanket..

 

[Iam Nana!]

Pretty sure he is security or bailiff or a combination of both.

His daughter said on Twitter he is part of security.

 

[Gardenista]

FITS has a deliberation clock running

 

[sunshineray]

Okay....so now it's wine:thirty.

I'm having some sloe gin

 

[UK Girl]

Poor Buster. He hangs out to make eye contact with his dad, but AM doesn’t give him the time of day.

I dont really understand why Buster even wants anything from his dad to be honest.

 

[vls12345]

Do they just sit in the room and listen, all the while they're playing Candy Crush??

No, alternates are kept separately. My understanding is that if the last alternate would be needed, the judge would have to seat the alternate as an official juror, then the jury would have to restart deliberations from the beginning with the new juror.

Based on my own experience with being on a jury.

MOO.

I don't find it strange that the alternate has to stay. I was on a jury for a much lesser case and the alternates had to stay, separately, while the jury deliberated. They ended up not being needed, but had to stay until the jury finished deliberating and the verdict was read.

 

[bestill]

So help me, what if they want that alternate moved onto the jury? I don’t trust Alex Murdaugh one iota.

I think that alternate is a loose cannon based on her being called blanket lady and tissue lady! Why is the state not protesting about her?

 

[Twistinginthewind]

Side observation...you'd think Buster would have a better fitting suit

AM too, IMO. Their suits seem oversized and not cut from the greatest cloth for prominent men (shiny looking, boxy), but maybe that's the style around there. It's reminiscent of the massive suit David Byrne of The Talking Heads wore on their Stop Making Sense Tour.

MOO

 

[Edvis]

It's been a long day sleuths but it's now in the hands of the jurors and hope they can see through the fog that the defense kept popping and see AM for what he is, will accept the decision ether way but may throw a tantrum first lol. The Crazy Train cocktail lounge car will be open all night with continued drinks on the house. Feel free to mingle, discuss your thoughts and feelings and get your belly full as well in our 5 star dinning car. I feel the state's ending was solid with a dagger to the heart of the defense IMO and we can celebrate that as well. The chicken is springy again and moving about stealing sips from the sleuths drinks, a good sign and will be available for one on one egg chat's. TOOT TOOT! websleuths it's been a heck of a ride and would'nt have changed the ride or great company I have spent time with.

 

[arielilane]

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[Love Never Fails]

I’ve never listened to a judges instructions before. Was everything he said pretty common?

I ask because it sounded so convoluted to me. As if he was instructing them one way and then another.

When he talked about Alex being wrapped in a cloak of righteousness, I mean what??? Is that for real?

Any of you that have been a juror on a murder case or heard juror instructions please help me out here.

If I was on this jury I would feel lost. Admittedly I know nothing about legal proceedings.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1631393980435800065

 

[britinsussex]

Do they just sit in the room and listen, all the while they're playing Candy Crush??

I would be going crazy as the Alt Juror! They would have to give me a book to read.

 

[sunshineray]

Do they just sit in the room and listen, all the while they're playing Candy Crush??

No they go into isolation by themselves

 

[TTF14]

Unless there's direct proof I struggle going with a guilty verdict. I would make a terrible juror.

Haha yes, you would . Circumstantial evidence is still evidence. Three people were at the kennels, as evidenced on video and AM's own confession about his lie. Within just minutes of that video of three people, out in the middle of nowhere, two of them were dead and one was lying.

To me, that is VERY direct proof. Either that or AM is THE unluckiest man alive to have had unarmed bandits descend on his property at that exact perfect moment, and kill his family without him hearing a thing. That defies logic. It's UNreasonable.

 

[bestill]

Was Am thanking people in the gallery?
He seemed intent on talking to someone, but it wasn't anyone from the family that I could tell.

Who was the dark headed lady with the aqua blouse on? She hung back staring at him and it looked like they stared at each other for a good bit of time.

 

[BrownRice]

I dont really understand why Buster even wants anything from his dad to be honest.

Maybe family pressure for a United front.