a plane to wherever i could get, you know, a record sized crowd and show strength. he is running. i agree with max that he is actually going to end up. i believe as far as the republican primary goes. i think he s going to become stronger because of it. i think he s more likely to become the nominee about republican voters. if it becomes stronger afternoon indictment. there s a belief that s a political prosecution that understand targeted my whole thing. about the witch hunt is don t be a witch. so if it s a witch hunt, which you know we could argue, but he s still a witch, right? here s the thing about this political prosecution argument if alvin bragg is bringing this because donald trump is a republican, that is so dumb and i will tell you, alvin is not dumb. and the reason it s dumb is because when you go to court and you re in front of this jury, you don t get to tell them ladies and gentlemen, he s a republican. he has these terrible, draconian policies. let s please convict him
because they re arguing that he s been a liar and he lied to police where he was on the night of the murders, there must be a reason for that. murdaugh was making the case that because he s an addict and as a result of that, he had paranoid thoughts. was that an effective response to that prosecution argument? i don t know that he had any option, jim. he and his lawyers have been peddling that theory for a long time now and i think he had to really go with that. you know, i don t know how effective that s going to be. you know the opioid crisis effects so many people directly and indirectly in our country, and i think it will be hard to imagine for a lot of people that what he described is something that we can understand as someone who has been addicted to opioids for 20-plus years at that level, and being the type of lawyer that he is and was. goodness. quite a case. sarah ford, thanks so much for helping us out. still ahead, a cnn exclusive with the first lady.
tell you what else it looks like, jim griffin was glad the jury was not in there. that was not the answer that he was expecting from her. i think there s a risk those, martha, when you try to convince a jury, i have so many bad things happening in my life, i m stealing from clients, stealing from my law partners. so let me create a diversion by committing double capital murder. that is the prosecution argument. is that this was intended as a diversion. will it work? it may work, but may not work for that reason. i just it s hard to convince 12 people because i m going to go to jail for a little while, i m going to construct a double homicide where i m going to jail for the rest of my life. maybe a jury buys it, maybe they don t. people do want to know why. why would you do this? it s tough. what explanation can you give for killing your wife and your own child? what explanation would make you say oh, yeah, now i get it.
attorney there trying to raise doubt poke holes in the state prosecution argument. precisely pam. you ll also notice that the defense attorney, dick harpootlian said that they that he asked who unlocked that phone for law enforcement saying that it was alex murdaugh who unlocked maggie murdaugh s phone for them to go through. look, the state went through a bit at the beginning explaining what word circumstantial evidence means. and telling people what reasonable doubt means, trying to go over definitions of those specifically. that has been something the defense has said all along but specifically this week, when going over the pretrial motions about the evidence and the experts that the prosecution wants to introduce into this trial, talking about the fact that much of this is circumstantial. there s no smoking gun per se,
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