any of them here? i m sure some of them are. yes, sir. half of them? there are a substantial number of charges here and some in hampton and allendale, there may be others i m not thinking of right now. we might have worn out our welcome here. i will take this opportunity to thank the sheriff here and all of the court officials and really everyone i ve met and dealt with while here in carleton county have just been great. we ll schedule some of the other matters. i know the scheduling is complicated and you sacrificed quite a bit to be able to be here defending mr. murdaugh, as well as the attorney general s office with all the other many, many things and obligations you have. and to be able to have the attorney general here, allen wilson, for the period of time that he has devoted to being here along with everyone else, it has been quite a sacrifice. but there are victims whose cases deserve to be heard. and this case has jumped some of those other cases, perhaps jump
trey rick let s beginning with you in the low country yourself. greenville, south carolina. how often is it that you hear a judge deliver what we just watched? not very often but i think your viewers need to know cliff newman lost a son not long ago who was the prominent, well-known lawyer in south carolina. so of all the trial judges in the state that can feel the loss, the finality of death, it would be cliff newman. if you know anything about him, bill, you know he have wants the defendant to tell him why. the jury has already spoken. so for alex murdaugh to insult the jury, insult the process was a really dumb thing. the good news for him he would get life no matter what but i don t know, cliff may have run them concurrent but for the fact that alex murdaugh continues to lie and therefore he got back-to-back life sentences.
to the prosecution. that will potentially be the basis of appeal. abusive discretion by letting so much of the financials in, etc. but i this i the jury verdict bears him out. his demeanor and the way it was conducted and the fact we all got to sight, right? it was televised. it is not only a win down there, it is a win for the american justice system. we should feel good about it. bill: his son was brian newman died january 7th with a blood clot in his heart just to follow up on trey s commentary there. jonna, what do you think now? well, i would like to weigh in on the judge. that was eloquent and thoughtful. i got the sense when he was reading the sentence he would have that same conversation with alex murdaugh if he were alone in a room with him and none of us were there. he really did care. he tried to elicit a confession
that were in the courtroom read this and i think it was probably a mistake for them to do that jury view because the jury got out there to that house and moselle and said if you have all of these all this gunfire, not one but two blasts from a 12 gauge and 4, 5, possibly shots from a high-powered rifle how could somebody at that house not hear it? his testimony and statements about not being there and being there but not hearing anything, that went nowhere. the jury certainly the judge was not buying what alex murdaugh was selling and it cost him not one, but two as we heard consecutive life sentences. he will never breathe free air again. bill: before we get to jonna i want to bring in paul morrow and your initial reaction based on what i thought was quite an extraordinary message delivered on behalf of the judge as trey pointed out he was trying to get