SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #15

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Watching Law & Crime and someone just brought up why are witnesses sitting in the courtroom listening to other witnesses testify. I know yesterday I saw JMM and Buster there. Buster is back there today. The LE that testified were also sitting in courtroom when called.
The way I understand this is the defense or the prosecution would have to request the sequester of the witnesses. If no request has been filed and/or granted, witnesses are allowed in the courtroom.

"Upon request of one party, witnesses who are expected to give testimony at a later point in the trial may be excluded from court to prevent their hearing any earlier testimony. Sequestration may only be applied to witnesses, and not to parties to the dispute even though they may be called upon to testify. In addition, parties found to be victims may not be sequestered."

SCJB Special Matters at Trial
 
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I find it interesting that AM has one specific motion/action he makes anytime he becomes "emotional" - it never varies. MOO
 
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AM is told by the 911 Dispatcher on the recording of the call not to get a gun so he doesn't have one when first responders arrive on the scene. You can then hear AM say that PM has been threatened recently. (Of course we know from earlier testimony today, AM had a shotgun when LE first arrived on the scene).
 
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Tinish Bryson-Smith of the Hampton County 911 center takes the stand in SC v. #AlexMurdaugh. She says sometimes 911 calls from other counties are picked up by Hampton County due to where a cell phone picks up on a tower

Bryson-Smith says they received a 911 call on June 7, 2021 from #AlexMurdaugh. Call moved into evidence

On cross, Dick Harpootlian asks just a couple of quick Q's about how a call is routed to a 911 call center. They talk about the cell tower and that's how it's determined. This might sort of help the defense. Call made from Colleton is routed to Hampton Co. b/c of the tower

Now Capt. overseeing Colleton County 911 call center takes the stand. She says it's common for them to receive calls from Hampton County because there are a few counties in that area and it depends on the cell tower the call uses
 
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Witness on stand now: Barry McRoy - Fire Chief - Colleton Co. Fire & Rescue
 
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Very gruesome descriptions of both MM and PM's bodies during the testimony of Chief McRoy.
 
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Wonder if mention will be made of AM feeling safe/not worried while he waited for LE on the night of the murders? (Kind of like the earlier mention of the rest of the Murdaughs being out & about, not seeming to fear for their lives, if indeed there is a killer on the loose.)

I am stunned that potential witnesses are allowed to be in the courtroom. Are they angling for a mistrial?

MOO.
That’s *exactly* what I was thinking! Mucking up the proceedings.
 
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Alex Murdaugh hysterical but dry-eyed at crime scene, bodycam shows​

Murdaugh faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted​

WALTERBORO, S.C. – Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was hysterical but dry-eyed after his wife and son were shot to death, according to testimony Thursday at his double murder trial.

Sgt. Daniel Greene, the first responder on the scene, said Murdaugh, 54, wasn't actually crying.

"Did you ever observe any physical tears?" asked Creighton Waters, lead prosecutor for the South Carolina Attorney General's Office.

"I did not," replied Greene, who was the state's first witness in the Colleton County Courthouse in Waltersboro.

 
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Tire tracks noticed at the end of the lean to by paramedic McCoy who told someone about them.
 
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