prosecution sorts to believe it was the sort of gotcha moment. watch this. were you, in fact, at the kennels at 8:44 p.m. on the night maggie and paul were murdered? i was. did you lie to agent own and deputy laura rutland on the night of june 7th and told them that you stayed at the house after dinner. i did lie to. griff: was that, brian, the gotcha moment that the prosecution hoped it would be? absolutely, griff. the thousand pound gorilla in this courtroom has always been murdaugh lied. he lied to investigators, but he s remembering everything else and this is the same guy who opened himself up on cross exam, griff, to talk about all of those innocent and loving clients and friends who he hoodwinked, who he stole
she decided on her own. she was worried about you. isn t that what you said? did say that. i believe that to be the case. since despite what you told law enforcement, we have since seen the text that you called her and asked her to come home on the night of june 7th. that s not correct. that s not correct? that s absolutely not correct. you heard the sister-in-law testify to that fact of the conversation she had with maggie, but you re saying that s not true. i don t believe that s what she said. your defense exhibit 107 where maggie text and said wants me to come home. i have seen that. i agree with that. it s up on the screen. i ll just hold it up.
accord. she was worried about you. isn t that what you said? i did say that. i believe that to be the case. since we have despite what you told law enforcement, we have seen the text that you actually called her and asked her to come home on the night of june 7th? no, sir. that s not correct? no, sir. that s absolutely not correct. you heard your sister-in-law testify of that fact of a conversation she had with maggie. you are saying that s not true? i don t believe that s what marion said. your defense put in this exhibit 107 where maggie texted and said, alex wants me to come home. i have seen that. i agree with that. is that on i have the wrong input. i will just hold it up. you have seen this text? i have seen that. the only dispute i have with what you are saying is you are
that will situation, it made maggie sad. and she didn t like to go. so i don t believe we did, but i do acknowledge that at some point she might go for some reason. you told law enforcement on multiple occasions that, first of all, maggie was planning to stay on june 7th, correct? i did say that. and you also say you came to find out that she came home on her own accord, correct? you told that to law enforcement, is that true? she did come home on her own accord appearance because she decided to come on her own accord because she was worried about you, is that what you said? i did say that and i believe that to be the case. despite what you told law enforcement, we have since seen the text that you actually called her and asked her to come home on the night of june 7th. no, sir, that is not correct. that is not correct?
did you and maggie discuss her going along with you to alameda? don t believe that we did. i know that there was a point in time where i said maggie might go, but it s highly unusual for maggie to go and visit just my mom. she made maggie sad. she didn t like to duo. i don t believe that we did, but i do acknowledge that at some point i said she might go for some reason. you told law enforcement on multiple occasions that first of all, maggie was planning to stay there the night of june 7th. i did say that. you also said that you came to find out that she came home of her own accord. you told that to law enforcement. is that true? she did come home of her own accord.