Alex Murdaugh still has to answer for the 99 alleged financial crimes in which he has yet to be tried.
reveals that the jury took even less time than that — more like one hour for the 12 jurors to reach an unanimous guilty verdict.
Initially, the court was not going to permit the prosecution to go into the issue of his alleged financial crimes at the murder trial. And rightfully so. The rules of evidence usually do not permit jurors to hear about a defendant’s other charged crimes or such allegations out of the fear that they may decide that a defendant is guilty simply because he’s been accused of committing other crimes. These rules don’t allow evidence about someone’s “bad character” or “bad acts” to be admitted.
On redirect examination, the prosecution asked questions centered on Murdaugh’s financial condition, his debts and his financial exposure for the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of, the young woman killed in a 2019 boating accident caused by Paul. Of note, the prosecution asked Loving if he knew that on the morning of the murders, Murdaugh had been confronted at his law firm about $792,000 in missing funds.
By the time the defense got to its case-in-chief, the unanswered questions about Murdaugh’s financial crimes and Paul’s crime scene video loomed large in that courtroom. And there was really only one person who could adequately address and answer those questions: Murdaugh. So when he took the stand, he had to immediately come clean about the crime scene video with his voice on it.
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