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Transcripts for CNN Early Start With Christine Romans 20240604 10:04:00

Making fwiggie when they got sh. reporter: prosecutors say alex killed them to distract from his personal finances being exposed. plenty of times that i took money that i shouldn t have taken. reporter: murdaugh s defense team pushed back on the alleged motive and this defense witness told the jury after analyzing the bullet s trajectory, he determined someone much shorter than alex murdaugh who is about 6 5 likely was responsible for killing his wife. it puts the shooter or whoever fired the weapon if they were that tall, it puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. reporter: alex murdaugh s legal team did not comment on the guilty verdict. his lawyers say they will speak to the media after this morning s sentencing. now to the storms that first brought blizzard conditions to the west, and still tearing ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Primetime 20240604 02:06:00

And his personal finances were about to be exposed at an upcoming court hearing. there were plenty of times where i took money that i s shouldn t have taken. reporter: murdaugh s defense team has pushed back on the alleged motive, and this devs witness told the jury after analyzing the jury s trajectory, he determined someone much shorter than alex murdaugh who was about 6 5 likely was responsible for killing his wife. it puts the shooter or whoever fired the well, if they were that tall, it puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. now you re up to speed. let s slow down for a second. i want to go right to the evidence. you know, it comes down to two things that every single prosecutor has to contend with. i m talking motive and opportunity. and without direct evidence or eyewitnesses or even weapons themselves, the prosecution s going to have to prove the latter, opportunity, better known as time. so let s focus first on the time line. ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Primetime 20240604 06:06:00

it puts the shooter or whoever fired the weapon, if they were that tall, it puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. now you have been up to speed. i want to go right to the evidence. it comes down to two things that every single prosecutor has to contend with. we are talking motive, and opportunity. and without direct evidence, or eyewitnesses, or even the weapons themselves, the prosecution is going to have to prove the latter. opportunity, better known as time. let s focus first on the timeline. the prosecution is laid out and the big question, did murdaugh has time to commit murder, get rid of the guns, clean himself up, leave, and return in about an hour and 17 minutes? or, is there reasonable doubt? let s drill down on that key kennel video that was mentioned. i want to turn to the prosecution first because listen, he is emitting now that he is on the scene of the crime, moments before the murders. is that enough? with everything else, yes. it is not cell phone that i ....

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240604 05:54:00

Shot with a gun the defense leaned on buster to convince the jury, that his father would never have loaded a shotgun like that. you ever seen any guns on your property load in that fashion? no sir. buckshot with some sort of bergeron behind it? after buster finished, this forensic engineer testified for the defense. he told the jury, based on his crime scene analysis, a person shorter than alex murdaugh, who is about 64, likely killed both maggie and paul. it puts the shooter oh whoever fired the weapon, if they were to it puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. what, if any opinion, do you have as to whether that person could be alex murdaugh shooting into that it can t be. this expert also testified about how the sound of gunfire travels. if you were in the house, even if you are walking around, you would hear that. that s key for the defense, ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom Live 20240604 09:54:00

To lean on buster to convince the jury that his father would never have loaded a shotgun like that. have you ever seen any guns on your property loaded in that fashion? no, sir. buck shirt with a bird shot right behind it? no, sir. reporter: and this forensic engineer testified for the defense, and he told the jury based on his crime seen analysis a person shorter than alex murdaugh who is about 6 4 likely killed both maggie and paul. it puts the shooter or whoever fired the wep if they were that tall, it puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. what if any opinion do you have as to whether that person could be alex murdaugh shooting into that quail pen? it can t be. reporter: and the expert also testified about how the sound of gunfire travels. if you were in the house or walking around, you wouldn t hear that. reporter: that is key for the defense because if murdaugh didn t do this and was napping in the main house at the time of the murders as he said, it ....

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