the u. s supreme court, which is i is what i m afraid is going to happen, no matter who wins or who loses, and frankly, i would expect a split verdict on this case. the reason for this is we know that there are at least two supreme court justices that are eager to re examine new york times versus sullivan. i don t want to give them that opportunity. to me. this case speaks to the strength and wisdom of new york times versus sullivan. i know that that s probably a minority view among many who are in the political landscape. there s a very high bar here that needs to be met because dominion is a public plaintiffs, so it s not a negligent standard. it s actual malice. why wouldn t this perhaps be an affirmation of the wisdom of times versus sullivan? well i know a lot of people of media lawyers and others are saying this is the case that beats the actual malice standard. i m not entirely sure of that as a whole. i think that
makes his life any better. the motive here, what s the positive effect of him killing his wife and son? it doesn t get him out of the other stuff. it drew more attention to him. jurors will play sociologist, and sometimes they will split the baby, saying they will split the charges or because you have so many mounting legal troubles, we re not going to convict him at all. this is one drop in the bucket of the numerous financial crimes he s charged with. they understand by no means is he looking at a free life, even if he is acquitted here or if he is not convicted. and so it would not entirely surprise me, given how weird this case is if we see a split verdict or he ends up with a hung jury. the judge is seated. they are bringing in the jury now. we re not going in yet. alex murdaugh is back on the stand. once the defense is done with murdaugh and the prosecution takes up questioning, what s
0 talked about that he found later in my office. and it was tight it was handwritten, ready to be tightened up by, you know because of the charges against paw, i kept everything close in the civil case, it was danny in his office that was doing it, and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put that financial information into the final document, and that s the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that was what was going to be if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. alec, the jury has heard about testimony of you stealing client funds. did you do that? i did, yes. did you steal or divert that farris fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not
one of the lead prosecutors, a man in jeffrey nessel or, they claimed saving the republic, but they fractured it instead. after all that, the jury took about one week to deliberate and today they returned a verdict. i found stewart rhodes and another oath keeper who ran the group s florida chapter a, group called kelly mags, found them both guilty seditious conspiracy. acquitted him of other two charges and found three other defendants not guilty of sedition. a split verdict in the most serious charge brought so far in the 900 plus criminal prosecutions january six insurrectionists. roads lawyers say they will appeal but as it stands roads may face up to 20 years in prison. this is a big moment in our country s history. it is the first time in 27 years that we have seen a successful sedition prosecution. and it has been 68 years since we have seen americans convicted of sedition. former members of the oath keepers go to trial next week on similar charges and in just a few weeks and oth
but they fractured it instead. after all that, the jury took about one week to deliberate and today they returned a verdict. i found stewart rhodes and another oath keeper who ran the group s florida chapter a, group called kelly mags, found them both guilty seditious conspiracy. acquitted him of other two charges and found three other defendants not guilty of sedition. a split verdict in the most serious charge brought so far in the 900 plus criminal prosecutions january six insurrectionists. roads lawyers say they will appeal but as it stands roads may face up to 20 years in prison. this is a big moment in our country s history. it is the first time in 27 years that we have seen a successful sedition prosecution. and it has been 68 years since we have seen americans convicted of sedition. former members of the oath keepers go to trial next week on similar charges and in just