and he sort of left it there. left it there for you to then take it and run with it as if, oh, paul must have paul must have found alex using drugs, there must have been a confrontation down there at the kennel, and that must have been what happened. now, he didn t go that far in his argument, but he laid it out there for you to run with. but that was clearly the implication. and i want to tell you first, there are no facts to support that, none whatsoever. let me add another scenario, this equally as plausible. what if paul, the detective, learned the source of drugs that were being sold to his dad. what if paul, the detective, goes to that drug source. says cut it out. that s my dad, you re hurting my family. and if you don t, i m going to tell on you. turn you in.
0 fraud he had been committing for years, the defense pointing out that doesn t make any sense, all that did was landed him in law enforcement s focus. so, what we see here is the defense trying to eat away at the prosecution s case. they did that earlier by attacking forensic evidence. they spent a lot of time talking about blood splatter evidence and why that might not be a reliable indicator of guilt. and while the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the prosecution, in essence, has to convince the jury on each of these points. the defense only has to make that one small inroad, that s their strategy here here. joyce vance, thank you so much. that does it for me this hour. i ll be back tomorrow. jose diaz-balart reports starts right now. and good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart. we re keeping our eyes on south carolina courtroom where former attorney alex murdaugh stands trial for the murder of his wife maggie and
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