The state calls its sixth financial witness (with the jury still out of the room), Carson Burney, a forensic accountant with the state grand jury. Works for the Attorney General's Office. He is being questioned by his coworker, prosecutor Creighton Waters.
Burney testifies he was assigned to trace the money Murdaugh stole, including money that went through Murdaugh’s fake Forge account at Bank of America.
We are yet again talking about an Excel spreadsheet. Burney created pivot tables to track where the money went.
This is Johnny Ellis James' first appearance in this case. He's a state grand jury prosecutor with some pep in his step.
Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters has handled most of the financial witnesses, so far. James works closely with waters in the state grand jury.
John Marvin and Buster Murdaugh just walked into the courthouse, seven minutes before the jury was scheduled to return to the courtroom. They haven't been here for most of the financial witnesses. Mostly just when the jury is in the room.
We get our first Curtis "Cousin Eddie" Smith mention of the trial as Burney testifies about how Murdaugh wrote him dozens of checks. We've known for a while that Murdaugh wrote Smith hundreds of checks worth about $2.4 million.
Burney steps down. The jury comes into the room. We are moving back to the murder portion of this trial. The state calls its 22nd witness, Thomas Darnell, a fingerprint examiner with SLED. Fingerprints!