watch. murdaugh spent hours, as trace pointed out, on the stand answering questions about his opioid addiction, his finances, stealing millions from clients, even being disbarred, but he denied he was desperate enough to kill. did you shoot a 300 black out into her head, causing her de death? i didn t shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. the disgrace south carolina lawyer on trial for allegedly killing 52-year-old maggie murdaugh in their 22-year-old son, paul, or paw-paw, as he kept coming in for some reason, back into a 21. murdaugh admitted to lying to cops about being at the estate kennels earlier in the evening on june 7th, the day the bodies were later found. i lied about being down th there. and i m so sorry that i did. most of all, i m sorry to mags and paw-paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. boy, it does not look good for him. he also said that he initially lied about being at the dog kennels because of his years lon
america reports with my partner for this friday, how are you today? i m good, well, thanks for joining us on this friday. welcome to america reports. this has been fascinating to watch, day 2 as the prosecution now cross examinates alex, and what s interesting to me, jonna spilbor said the prosecutor is seemingly getting outlawyered by his own witness here. let s bring in now criminal defense attorney phil holloway to get his take on what we have seen so far, as they take a break there in south carolina. phil, you know, yesterday you said that you thought that he needed to testify. he s admitted to stealing from clients, admitted to lying repeatedly, do you still think that was a good idea? yes, i do, good afternoon. thanks for having me back. i think so far the defendant is doing quite well as a witness in this case and honestly this is a master class how not to conduct a cross examination. open ended questions, and even in law school in trial advocacy classes young
that night and yesterday, murdaugh changed his story to admit he was at the dog kennels where his wife and son worships slade something that he did not tell the police at the time. . the last time you sell supposedly your wife and child and all of this detail, you as a lawyer and a prosecutor didn t think that was important to offer? i think it is important here in and al murdaugh helped l.a. about being at the kennels, he left his wife and son minutes before slaughtered, no one else was around. you hear the dogs barking, caring on and they sent somebody was around? no, they weren t. there was nobody around and the dogs didn t know. there was nobody else around. good. for him to sense. jesse: but the most explosive moment of the day murdaugh putting his own theory who murdered his family. he believes it is revenge over a vote accident involving his now deceased son paul. paul was driving the family vote drunk when he crashed and killed one of his friends. i
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