JURY SELECTION :Legal Heir Alex Murdaugh, Suspect in Wife and Son's Murders

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Before the start of jury selection in the murder trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh, his defense team had already filed a motion seeking to block testimony on potential blood evidence.

Jury selection continues in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial. He's accused of shooting his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul. More than 900 potential jurors were called and then divided up into panels. 32 jurors qualified from the first group. After the other groups are polled, the actual jurors and alternates would be selected from the parred-down pool.

Blood spatter evidence is also being discussed by the lawyers and the judge. Defense attorneys have filed a motion to block testimony on potential blood evidence.

Murdaugh was wearing a white t-shirt when he arrived at the property. Murdaugh’s defense team argues that their expert, after reviewing a report and analysis from a prosecution witness, said he could not form an opinion on whether the blood stains on Murdaugh’s shirt were consistent with back spatter from a gunshot.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Mark Tate- Trial Lawyer- The Tate Law Group
Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills, CA); Netflix show: 'Bling Empire' (Beverly Hills); @DrBethanyLive
Chris Byers - Former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, Now a Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner with Lancaster Information services in Atlanta
Lee Reiber- Mobile Device Forensic Expert, COO, Oxygen Forensics, Inc.; Author: "Mobile Forensic Investigations;" Podcast: "Forensic Happy Hour"
Dr. Michelle DuPre - Former Forensic Pathologist; Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department; Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Forensic Consultant
Anne Emerson - Senior Investigative Reporter, WCIV ABC News 4 (Charleston, SC); Host of Award-Winning Podcast: "Unsolved South Carolina: The Murdaugh Murders, Money and Mystery;" Twitter: @AnneTEmerson

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your
0:28.4	favorite podcast.
0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:43.5	Finally, will there be justice in the murderers of Maggie and Paul Murdoch?
0:51.6	Months and months have passed seemingly with no end in sight, but as we go to air, a jury is being
1:01.9	and panelled. It's a long and arduous process. 900 jurors have been called to the cornhouse.
1:08.9	Typically, in a case like this, you can make do with 60, 80, 100 jurors to get a jury of 12,
1:15.6	but not so here. The process happening as we speak. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
1:23.6	Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111. I missed all of the
1:30.6	hoopla surrounding the College of County Courtaus right now. One headline says the star attraction is
1:37.2	the elephant air or the elephant ears that are being sold outside. You know, those big pieces of
1:42.9	dough covered with sugar and cinnamon you get at a fair, the state fair. Food trucks arriving,
1:51.6	media there. Some people will call it a circus, but inside that courtroom is a whole different
1:59.3	thing. Where do the whole thing start? Right here.
2:02.7	I think now we're going to wear their merciless.
2:11.3	This is Alex Madden. I need to police the answers to me.
2:18.0	My wife and child have discussed the address.
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