Waters wants to argue about the admissibility of the roadside shooting. Harpootlian said the defense wasn’t anticipating a motions hearing today and isn’t prepared to do that.
I do not understand how the state is going to rest its case tomorrow.
Judge Newman orders the jury to return at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow instead of the usual 9:30 a.m. With the extra hour, the two sides will argue over the admissibility of the September 2021 roadside shooting evidence.
Welp, we've already kind of started the arguments. Waters says the roadside shooting is part of a pattern in which Murdaugh, confronted with a crisis, created a violent incident to victimize himself.
Harpootlian says that's bogus. “He didn’t do it to get some sort of sympathy. He did it to be dead. That’s why he did it.”
Harpootlian says the September 2021 roadside shooting is irrelevant to the June 7, 2021, murders.
Waters says Curtis Eddie Smith is on the witness list but "I didn't say we would be calling him." Harpootlian laughs about the idea of Smith testifying. “The cross-examination of Mr. Smith is something I’m looking forward to," he says.
That is all for today. Writing now.