six weeks. we are standing by for the court to resume in the verdict to be read. dianne gallagher as you know has been covering this from the very beginning she s outfront live in water bro south carolina outside of the courthouse. diane i understand the verdict came in a few weeks ago, a few hours of deliberations what else you understand is happening right here. as you can imagine this is a fluid situation, we have seen movement of the cameras inside of the courtroom signaling there is something going on but were focused on the seal every time we are in break. according to the pool at 6:41 p.m. the jury let the clerk of court no that they reached a verdict. we do not know what the verdict is, alex murdaugh facing four felony charges in a series of the murder of his wife maggie and his son paul, as you mentioned three hours of deliberation after lengthy closing arguments in the prosecution, the defense in a rebuttal from the prosecution this afternoon before the judge char
to clients, he lied to clients who died he died to family, friends, he lied to 911 that he was lying to them. we talked about about the financial crimes that were entered into this even though this was not a financial trial but it was part of the prosecution motive theory. what does this mean for your clients. have you talked to any of them after this verdict came in? my clients have been texting me and calling and it is bittersweet for them, they are celebrating her call in maggie s family the innocent family members who were suffering, they were happy to hear alec admit yes i lie and yes i stole but that s not enough. everything a person who s been victimized has wanted one thing complete accountability. complete accountability started today with the jury verdict and everybody is happy about that. would talk so much about the fact the power dynamic. this is a family that had legal power in this part of the state
six weeks. we are standing by for the court to resume in the verdict to be read. dianne gallagher as you know has been covering this from the very beginning she s outfront live in water bro south carolina outside of the courthouse. diane i understand the verdict came in a few weeks ago, a few hours of deliberations what else you understand is happening right here. as you can imagine this is a fluid situation, we have seen movement of the cameras inside of the courtroom signaling there is something going on but were focused on the seal every time we are in break. according to the pool at 6:41 p.m. the jury let the clerk of court no that they reached a verdict. we do not know what the verdict is, alex murdaugh facing four felony charges in a series of the murder of his wife maggie and his son paul, as you mentioned three hours of
if only it was this easy for us. we are waiting from the lead prosecutor after the victory for them, the verdict in the south carolina attorney alex murdaugh trial guilty on all four counts in the killing of his wife maggie and son paul three hours of deliberation after 20 days at trial. as we await, the state attorney from palm beach county. let me ask you has been a lot of discussion interesting in the conversation as a price how quick the verdict was in several people saying they thought it could ve been hung trial. everyone saying it comes down to the moment were his dead son has video of him on the cell phone and he lied about it and
start this is a case based on circumstantial evidence but based on a lot of circumstantial evidence. they created an exceptionally detailed timeline using gps data, cell phone data, the last time a phone was open, when text messages were received and videos recorded in it was that video found on paul murdaugh s phone. marianne proctor the sister of mary murdaugh testified that they call paul murdaugh to belittle productive that was because he was finding pills that his father had been taking and confronted him about it. but it looks like the little detectives final case that he may have cracked here was in fact the video on his phone that put his father at the crime scene minutes before the state says paul in maggie were murdered and the jury said alex murdaugh is the one who did it. if not for the video the state may never have been able to charge him no one knew about the video until march of 2022 around