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The Dershow

How I would have defended-and appealed-Murdaugh.

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K 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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