SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #19

[Amster]

Raincoat bundled up inside the tarp??
Drats!!!! I wanted to hear from the brother!!!!!!

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/AveryGWilks

We're back.

A juror raised concerns during jury selection about having other obligations if the trial ran beyond three weeks. So that juror might have to be excused.

Griffin moves to exclude any evidence about the blue rainjacket, saying that there is nothing linking that jacket to Alex Murdaugh since Smith testified she saw him carrying a blue tarp, not a jacket. Meadors counters that it could have been the blue jacket she saw.

Judge Newman doesn't issue a ruling. Instead, he calls in the jury. We're going forward with Smith still on the stand.

Under further questioning from Meadors, Smith testifies: Days after the slayings Alex Murdaugh told her that if someone asks her, he was with his mother that night for 35-40 minutes.

The state seems to be in trouble with the blue rainjacket evidence. Smith testifies under Griffin’s cross-examination she saw the blue tarp laid out over a rocking chair at Murdaugh’s parents house the next day. It was not a rainjacket. It was a tarp. No doubt in her mind.

Later, when investigators showed her a photo of a blue rainjacket, she told them she had never seen it before, she testifies. Prosecutors have said a blue rainjacket that was coated with GSR is a big part of their case. It was mentioned in Creighton Waters' opening statement.

Griffin: “If this rainjacket is what’s in that closet, you’ve never seen Alex Murdaugh with this garment before, have you?” Smith: “No, I haven’t.”

Griffin finishing cross-examination: It was unusual for Alex to come over at night, but this was an unusual day because Randolph III, his father, had just been hospitalized, right? Smith: Correct. Smith steps down.

The state's 29th witness is SLED crime scene unit agent Kristin Moore.

 

[sunshineray]

Ok now it sounds like the raincoat was bundled up inside a tarp?

Edited by me: Sounds like there was a blue raincoat (tested positive for GSR) AND a blue tarp in that closet.

 

[BUF]

Good… now the SLED agent who was part of the search at his moms house where they found the blue tarp in the bedroom closet.

They also located the blue raincoat on the second floor.

 

[bestill]

Defense sure cues the jury when they are worried about something, imo.

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622686831815938048

 

[lonetraveler]

@BlairSabolTV

Breaking for lunch now until 2:30pm Judge says he will meet with a juror individually during this time..

Well that piques my curiosity.

 

[Seattle1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622612801566003202

IMO, here is where for the very first time, generations in the community faced each other in opposition: Parents v Youth. And the youth were not afraid of the consequences of making Murdaugh accountable.

Given a choice, they'd rather it be Paul that fell to the bottom of the waters than Mallory. Social media played an important role too. To the shock and dismay of the dynasty, Mallory's story wasn't going away.

Murdaugh could find no fix in the deep bag of tricks. MOO

 

[lonetraveler]

I thought about that too and the hose/water seems to turn on while Paul is in the pen. Half way through vid you can see what looks like a bright green hose on the ground.

One of them could have been washing out the kennel.

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622688336795127808

 

[lonetraveler]

I'm guessing SLED served a search warrant, found a blue raincoat hanging on the chair in a room at Alameda?

Yes, but they also found a blue tarp.

 

[sds71]

Well that piques my curiosity.

Update 2:35 p.m.: Court has resumed. The judge said Juror 729 previously said they had limitations about serving if the trial goes long and the judge reminded the prosecution and defense of that

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[arielilane]

Pleas no OJ moment...

 

[BUF]

This raincoat is packed like a Pandora’s box!

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622689582855909376

 

[mystery_cat]

I’m guessing the defense is trying to argue that the blue raincoat is too small for AM?

 

[arielilane]

He sure was anxious to touch the rain jacket. moo.

 

[BUF]

I’m guessing the defense is trying to argue that the blue raincoat is too small for AM?

Yeah, that kind of fell flat wouldn’t you say?

 

[mystery_cat]

Yeah, that kind of fell flat wouldn’t you say?

It definitely did!!

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622691793388113941