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
Hows your client now . Hows his State Of Mind . Not good. Jimmy, where jim i was with him that morning he was shot. In his mind, he was ready to give up. I said, you know, alex, theres an end to this, and theres a life beyond this. And you need to be here for your family, and buster loves you, and, you know, we all support you 100 . And he told me that he had an Opioid Addiction and that he had been struggling with it for many, many years and it was very expensive. Alex murdaughs speaking for the first time in weeks, this time from a savannah hospital bed. The patriarch of the family making Big Decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. Ive made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. Im resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle thats been exacerbated by these murders. After alex was shot, first thing he did was admit that he had an Opioid Addiction and a problem and then wen
i said there is a life beyond this and you need to be here for your family and buster loves you and we all support you 100%. he told me he had an opioid addiction and had been struggling with it for many years and it was very expensive. the patriarch of the family making big decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. the murders have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. i made about decisions i truly regret. i am resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders. after he was shot the first thing he did was admit he had an opioid addiction and a problem and then went immediately to rehab. he has to stay there and can t leave. is he going home with you guys? going straight back to rehab. the murder of his son and wife 90 days ago took a tremendous toll on him. most people could not get through that. he got through it with the use of opioids. that void just keeps getting bigger. you feel for
of a vigil outside city hall in monterey park, california. people have been stopping by throughout the evening there in remembrance of 11 murdered over the weekend by a gunman at a dance studio as they were celebrating the lunar new year. one of three mass shootings since saturday leaving 19 dead and california s governor with harsh words for washington and republican lawmakers. federal government needs to do its job. let s call it out. we have one party that are obstructionists. i m damn sick and tired of this stuff. i m sick of this. i don t want to ever see this again. i don t want to see you again in this condition. i m serious. i m not making this up about all these damn notes. how many governors have you seen doing the same damn dance we are doing here today? joining us senator chris murphy, democratic, connecticut, in the wake of the mass murder at sandy hook elementary school ten years ago. appreciate you joining us. you hear the anger from gavin newsome. californ