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welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in the united states, thejury in the double murder trial of alex murdaugh has found him guilty of murdering his wife and son. prosecutors had said the lawyer, from a well known and wealthy family, carried out the killings in an effort to distract from the fact he had been stealing from the family firm. here s the moment the verdicts were read out in court. guilty verdict. signed by the forelady, 3 2 23. we willjust renew our previously argued motions for the directed verdict and at this on the grounds on those grounds, we would make a motion for a mistrial and to set aside the verdict. by the state, response. your honour, based on our previous arguments, we would submit that the case properly went to the jury and the verdict was proper and we ll rely on those arguments. the court found at the end i of the state s case that there was sufficient evidence to find the defendant guilty, - if the evidence was. belie
a small town courthouse in south carolina, but a dramatic trial that has gripped the nation s imagination. minimum sentence for murder. after nearly six weeks of evidence, but less than three hours of deliberation, thejury returned its verdict on both murder charges. docket number 2022 gs 15, verdict guilty, signed by the foreperson of thejury. outside the court, the prosecutor said justice had been done. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. the murdaugh family dominated the legal world in this picturesque part of south carolina. for decades, the family held key prosecutor roles in several counties, and their private law firm seen almost as powerful as law enforcement itself. it was at this 1,700 acre property that the bodies of maggie and paul murdaugh were found brutally murdered almost two years ago, the culmination of a series of events that had seen three other separate suspicious deaths connected to the fam