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Saying and that s the language he used on the stands saying i would never intentionally hurt them. i did not do this. stick around for us, please, we have some of that from alex murdaugh s statement right here in court before he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. let s listen. judge, i ll tell you again, i respect this court, but i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie, and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son pau-pau. per ellison s point, dave aronberg, you and i were listening to that, you told me he keeps lying. and to ellison s point we expect that he will appeal. we expect maybe appealing on the grounds of those financial crimes that were allowed in, which he admitted to on the stand. but the judge even today saying when will it end? when will the lies end? the judge gave him a chance to finally come clean at the end before his sentencing and he ....
Sentences for the murders of his wife and son to be served consecutively. joining me right now outside the courthouse is nbc s ellison barber and state attorney for palm beach county florida is joining me on set. alex murdaugh just released into the department of corrections. ellison, so much leading us up to this moment. i can t help but think this sentencing statement really culminates the weeks we have been hearing here. everything this judge was saying is quotable from the tiger on his tail and discovery of the mallory beach case, to his father on his death bed, how he s testifying it was just an ordinary day and how if he were to argue that in any of his legal cases he would lose every one and he will never have the opportunity to do that. to ellison, one of the most striking moments of that in which the judge saidky imagine you see paul and maggie when you go to sleep, i would imagine they visit you. you have to deal with your own ....
Fly on the wall this this courtroom. all these people know each other, right? there s a lot of interconnectedness in south carolina. my family is from florence, south carolina. i went to school in this state, spartanburg, south carolina, it s not hard to find someone who knows someone here because so many of these communities, particularly in this part of south carolina, are so small. these are all people who do know each other or know of each other, and this has been a very tense, long trial, but you see- yeah, you see everyone seemingly kind of talk and make their way out of here. we do expect an appeal from the defense on this. that s one reason why the judge said to alex murdaugh he wouldn t expect him to say anything other than being innocent, but he did expect him to say something more than what he said in court today, which again was just him repeating i m innocent. i would not hurt my wife maggie, i would not hurt pau-pau, and that s the language he kept ....
Probably sentenced people to death for lesser crimes than this. this has been a long trial, six weeks, over 70 witnesses testifying, hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents. alex murdaugh did not admit being at the kennels around the time his wife and son were murdered until he took the stand to testify some 20 months after that first night of the murders when he first told investigators he was not there. the judge bringing that up after alex murdaugh claimed on the stand he had reached out to the prosecution to try to clarify that. reminding him of something you and i have talked about the, you and i have looked at in the documents in recent weeks. he and his attorneys filed a motion in alibi to the court in november, the idea that he had wanted to change his story to stop lying about being at the kennels at some point, it defies logic on its face for everyone regardless of what you thought ....
Day. but amazingly, to have you come and testify that it was just another ordinary day that my wife and son and i were out just enjoying life. not credible. not believable. you can convince yourself about it, but obviously you have the inability to convince anyone else about that. so if you made any such arguments as a lawyer, you would lose every case like that, cases you will never have an opportunity to argue anymore except perhaps your own as you sit in the department of ....