was and what he was doing, and he told attorneys today he told prosecutors, he was not trying to manufacture an alibi when he now admittedly lied to investigators around that time. here with me is cnn s jean casarez who has been watching so much of this trial and what jumped out to you at the end here, particularly the dramatic finish of that cross-examination? he went through every single name of his partners, the people that should have gotten millions of dollars from the law firm, his family, everyone for decades he had lied to over and over and over again. then he lied about not being down where the murders happened with his wife and his son. so close in time to when their phones locked forever, meaning they never were on them again because they had been murdered. trying to show this jury, you can t believe today anything he says on that sand because he s a liar and always will be. let me dig into that a little bit more, the specific moment, now that murdaugh admits t
announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the killi
we are hours away from his sentencing. the hearing will be this morning at 9:30. brian: took the jury less than three hours of deliberations to convict murdaugh in the murders of glinchtsd watson is live outside the court house in water borough, north carolina. convicted of the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. he was remanded almost immediately after the verdicts were read and led out of the coal tap county courthouse facing 30 years the jury came back with the unanimous verdict of guilty two counts of murder and guilty of two counts of possessing a weapon in possession of a violent crime. this after weeks of testimony including from alec who was forced to admit that he lied to police about not being at the scene of the murders after his voice was caught on video by his son paul. in court, the disgraced south carolina attorney didn t really show any emotion as the guilty verdicts were read late thursday evening. his surviving son buster sat a few rows behind him w
then they get to hear his voice near the scene. they compound it because they have to call an audible during the trial. they have to say oh yeah, all right, that it was me and i lied because i don t trust sled and i was on oxy and there was all this other stuff going on. to me, that was the inflection point right there because not only is he a liar but now they see him backing out of something that he was telling the police and it s very clear he made that decision during the trial. here s the jury essentially saying wow, we witnessed him do this stuff that he has been doing apparently to everybody in that county. they had a front r row seat to e kind of nonsense that this guy lived his life by. i felt like right there was the point where i really felt no possibility of an acquittal. i m going to be honest with you, jesse. i thought there was a good chance of a hung jury. jesse: you did? you thought maybe one juror would hold out? i actually don t think he was that much of a debacl
to show the neighbor your dog s fine. i m with him right now. i m feeding him at the kennel. the dog is running around and you can hear alec s voice chasing that s a beginy, that s a guinea. 8 friends personal friends who said that is definitely shall. when police arrived the dog was back in the kennel. and if you are if you are just a random person and out there on someone s property trespassing and you murder someone up you are not going to worry about the dog put the dog back in the kennel? no. the dog would have probably eaten your leg off. the alec murdaugh was familiar with the dog. the dog knew him well. he puts the dog back in the kennel probably and then says to police he wasn t there. and i only lied because i was paranoid and i was didn t like sled. i didn t trust sled who is south carolina law enforcement