announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the killi
happened with their own eyes. very hard to argue around that. the other thing is. this look, they put the sort of bad guy hat on the police a little bit, the defense did, right? they blew the crime scene. one of the cops had a difference between what he told the grand jury and what he said in trial. so they were trying to play that angle. but, you know, there is only one group that jurors tend to distrust more than cops? that s lawyers. [laughter] so i m a double-loser. so when he got on the stand and he started lawyering his answers and they were very heavily lawyered. you remember bill clinton saying well it depends on what the definition of is is. everybody rolled their eyes? he had a few moments on the stand where he sort of devolved into that and they saw lawyer. jesse: and the judge, apparently, knew this the entire time that there was an overwhelming amount of evidence that was the exact word he used and as judge jeanine pirro mentioned, he sent the jury to deliberate with
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