Judge: Jurors Kept Their OATH Did Their Job
Well, that juror that you played the sound bite from. this morning. and said to me,
She said it outright like there were no ifs and buts. She said that she felt pressured by the clerk back and that one of the reasons she had the guilty verdict that she agreed on guilty is because of where Clark Becky, which was jaw-dropping at the end of the day.
also interesting, by ruling at the end of the day when did that ever happen?
She took like a 10-minute recess, and came back and made her decision. We are expecting a written ruling.
She tore Clerk Becky apart actually for the first 10 minutes of her speech that she gave at the end of the day.
She basically said, Clerk back, he’s a liar. I think she lied on the stand today. All she cares about is money and fame, and she takes advantage of the whole situation just for the clerk, Becky.
But then at the end of all of that, she said, I don’t think this all rises to the level of a new trial. I think it would have been guilty regardless.
It was crazy because the judge was trying to things moving along at all the sides and the bailiff walked up to the judge like what was going on. and then that the judge says, ok, we’re going to take a break, goes into the back comes out, looks extremely agitated, and says I can’t believe this, but the bailiff spotted the jurors in the jury room streaming the trial, which is obviously not supposed to be happening.
She says the cell phones should have been taken away. They were taken away. and so then she had to call the jurors to question them about that where they admitted that it was up. Some of them work streaming it.
Others were listening and, you know, the defending this is clearly going to be part of the bigger appeal later.
1 Juror Says Clerk Influenced Decision
I’m just going to read out the list. So we have a juror who said yes, I was influenced by that clerk to vote guilty. Number one,
Number 2, we have jurors who watch the proceedings from the jury room on their phones when they aren’t supposed to. That’s just today.
Number 3, we have almost a half dozen jurors represented by the lawyer who has had it in for Alex Murdock for the last 2 years financially and has been saying so on television and everywhere else.
Number 4, we have a clerk who had a colleague who said that she lied on the stand.
Judge: No New Trial For Alex Murdaugh
I was sitting there on the couch watching the trial unfold and to get a new trial. There’s and how can he help? Could this be? dismissed,
especially if there is a juror point blank that I was influenced by someone who was representing the 4.
So I knew that someone was like, I to go back and I had analyzed. Both sides, you know, was that the Smith lot was jersey-live.
who was so we put it to the task. I got my team on it immediately. We did a voice stress analysis. jerry Crotty, one of our master examiners.
We evaluated sure enough. Becky Hill was on the line and Jersey was telling the truth. So, I have never seen this happen before. this blew my mind
Judge: Clerk’s Comments Fleeting & Foolish
It gets confusing when you get a double murder verdict like that.
and there are many tracks of potential appeal. is this
now a new track and they appeal this to go down the road of getting a new trial this week, but continue with plans for what happened during during the trial.
I think even more importantly, is that what residents are we setting from going from here forward with other trials?
because I look at that like what you’re talking about. Now is really it’s like, how the sanctity of our ports, our judicial system, the way we now starting to make a shift, are we going to be looking at things a little bit differently and then making rules as we go along to me,