Alex Murdaugh convicted after less than three hours of deliberations
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
A jury found Alex Murdaugh guilty of killing his wife and son at their South Carolina estate in June 2021. The disgraced attorney was convicted on all four counts he was facing, including two counts of murder. Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster, was seen wiping his tears as the guilty verdict was read. CNN National Correspondent Randi Kaye has been following this story from the start and was in the courtroom as Murdaugh was led away in handcuffs. She joins AC360 to discuss all the key testimony and evidence that was presented throughout the trial.
Plus, former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth tells Anderson Cooper she’s not surprised by the guilty verdict but is surprised that the jury deliberated for less than three hours.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. We begin with breaking news after just about three hours of |
| 0:04.2 | deliberation. Juris and I reach a verdict in the Alchmerdog double murder trial. |
| 0:08.7 | Guilty verdict verdict guilty verdict guilty. |
| 0:15.9 | Victions on all four charges against him including two counts of first degree |
| 0:20.2 | murder in the killings of his wife Margaret and his son Paul in July 2021. |
| 0:23.9 | You seem being led away there put in a van taken from the courthouse just |
| 0:29.1 | a moment ago that occurred. We're waiting for a conference with the |
| 0:33.1 | prosecution and press conference that we believe will be taking place any |
| 0:36.8 | moment now. Or Randy K was in the courthouse when the verdicts were read. |
| 0:39.8 | She joins us now. Randy it's extraordinary how quickly the jury came to this |
| 0:45.3 | verdict. What was like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read? |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, Anderson, it took them just about three and a half hours or so to find |
| 0:54.6 | Alec Birdock guilty on all four of those counts. And you know, you always try and |
| 0:58.0 | read the jury as they file back into the courtroom. None of them look to the |
| 1:01.0 | right of the courtroom where Murdoch sits and the family sits. They were all |
| 1:04.5 | basically had their heads down as as they walked into the courtroom. Also |
| 1:10.6 | Anderson, you could see Alex Murdoch. Oh, we have this presser that's just about |
| 1:15.9 | to start here. But that would be the that's the that's the South Carolina |
| 1:19.6 | attorney general Anderson Allen Wilson at the podium. He actually questioned |
| 1:24.8 | one of the last witnesses Anderson because that was a very important witness |
| 1:30.2 | a key witness. He was speaking to how the crime scene how it all happened. He |
| 1:35.8 | was a crime scene expert on recreation of the crime scene and was really able |
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