The trials studies, in this primetime special. Good evening everyone, i am laura coats, the Closing Argument today in the Alex Murdaugh Double Murder trial will resume tomorrow. They come after five weeks of intense, emotional, and graphic moments. As a jury of 12 in South Carolina will soon decide Alex Murdaughs face, and for the very first time today they visited the scene of the murders of maggie and paul murdoch, traveling to the families hunting property. We also got to look at the crime scene of close we have video released today. Here is how tonight is going to work. We have assembled some of the nations most prominent trial and jury veterans to analyze the key pieces of evidence. And which side may have the best argument. On the defense table, mark omara, who defended george zimmerman. Jennifer vaughan jean who defended bill cosby, and r. Kelly. And lonnie coombs, a former los angeles Criminal Prosecutor and a veteran former homicide prosecutor in brooklyn. In our makes a jury
victims in an alleged plot to kill, quote, anyone that is jewish in the michigan government. those words are from a man now in federal custody according to an affidavit. his first court appearance was wednesday on charges of making charges along state lines. and has tweeted the fbi has confirmed i was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter. it s my hope that they take this just as seriously as the federal authorities takes the offense just as seriously as my hate crimes and domestic terrorism unit takes plots to murder elected officials. he has three handguns and one that is an mia military-style weapon, polo sandoval has more. what have we learned? we actually see on the page, linked to jack and jane carpenter ii, the suspect in the case. and not just anti-semitic and quite alarming especially this tweet that federal investigators saw back in february, february 17th to be exact. and what he allegedly wrote, including, quote, he would carry out death to an
comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th
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