How I would have defended-and appealed-Murdaugh.
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dershow ever since Alex Murrow was convicted of murdering his wife |
| 0:09.3 | and son. |
| 0:10.4 | I would say dozens of people ask me the same question people come up to me on the street |
| 0:14.9 | in restaurants. |
| 0:16.6 | How would you have defended him? |
| 0:18.4 | Could you have gotten him off? |
| 0:21.2 | The answer to the second is probably not. |
| 0:25.8 | I did participate in the trial in the acquittal of O.J. Simpson. |
| 0:31.4 | Again, soon the evidence was overwhelming. |
| 0:35.2 | But as you'll hear later in this discussion, we didn't win the O.J. Simpson case. |
| 0:42.2 | The prosecutors lost it. |
| 0:43.6 | They blew it in every possible way. |
| 0:47.7 | But as to the first question, how would I have defended Murdock exactly the same way we |
| 0:54.2 | defended O.J. Simpson? |
| 0:56.7 | Never would have put him on the witness stand. |
| 0:59.3 | Would have introduced no witnesses whatsoever except for distinguished scientists, forensic |
| 1:07.2 | scientists presented the narrowest, technical, scientific case, simply challenging all the |
| 1:18.4 | states, forensic evidence, the Snapchat, the cell phone evidence, whereabouts, the bullets. |
| 1:33.3 | That would have left a lot of unanswered questions. |
| 1:36.4 | But that's the role of the defense attorney to create unanswered questions. |
| 1:41.0 | Once he took the witness stand, he had an obligation to answer all the questions he had |
| 1:45.8 | to admit that he was at the kennels, having previously denied it. |
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