ALEX MURDAUGH JUROR: 'I WAS PRESSURED TO FIND HIM GUILTY!"

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

There will be no new double murder trial for Alex Murdaugh, even though one juror says her vote was influenced by comments made by Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill.

According to Juror Z, “She made it seem like he was already guilty.”

Hill allegedly made comments such as "watch him closely" and "watch his body language." During Juror Z's testimony, she was asked by Judge Jean Toal if her verdict was based entirely on the testimony, evidence, and law presented in this case. The juror answered yes.

She was also asked if she heard Becky Hill make any comment about this case before your verdict. Again Juror Z answered yes, and that the comments influenced her decision. Prosecutor Creighton Waters that in her affidavit the juror had responded "I voted guilty because I felt pressured by the other jurors."

After hearing all the testimony, Judge Toal ruled that the defense did not show that Hill's improper comment or question actually influenced the juror's verdict.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Tim Jansen - Criminal Defense Lawyer and Former Federal Prosecutor; Legal Analyst for Tallahassee Democrat’s Newspaper
Dr. Bethany Marshall – Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills); Twitter: @DrBethanyLive/ Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall; Appearing in the new show, “Paris in Love” on Peacock
Chris McDonough – Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective; Host of YouTube channel: “The Interview Room”
Dr. Michelle Dupre – Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & “Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide”, Ret. Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s Department
Jennifer Wood – Director of Research at FITSNews.com; X: @IndyJenn_

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace. Alex Merlogg, the South Carolina heir to a legal dynasty, the millionaire who also gunned down his wife and son in cold blood, has just come out of
0:28.6	South Carolina courtroom where his bid for a new trial was examined over and over and over.
0:37.0	The point, did the court clerk?
0:41.2	Did the court,
0:44.4	taint the jury and cause them to render a guilty verdict.
0:51.4	You know what this means, right? We would have to do the entire Alex Murdoch double
0:57.5	murder trial again except the second time around the defense would have the state's playbook and I
1:06.0	guarantee you the defense would never put Alex Murdoch back on the stand all that
1:12.1	snorting and crying and slobbering and ugh, just playing to the jury
1:19.3	getting caught in his own lies. That wouldn't happen. Second, the defense would never have a huge
1:28.0	slip of the tongue and bring in Murdoch's financial crimes to the tune of millions and millions of dollars he was stealing
1:35.1	from his paraplegic clients and on and on and on.
1:39.5	Oh no, it would be a whole another movie if there was a retrial.
1:47.6	In the last hours, a judge rules that the defense is full of it. Let me try a technical legal term. Full of
1:57.5	BS. Okay? I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on Serious XM 111.
2:07.0	What a day in that South Carolina courtroom again!
2:11.0	I never thought that it would come to this.
2:14.6	All right, this judge is awesome,
2:18.0	although I'm very curious because the camera's
2:20.0	called her winking at somebody. I would like to find out about that. But first let's just get to
2:27.0	Alex Murdoch's bid for a new murder trial, excuse me, double murder trial.
2:34.0	Listen to the judge.
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