of collison in the court of general sessions in the term of 2022 july, the state versus richard alexander murdaughfendant, indictment for murder, sc code 16-3-0010cdr code 00116. guilty verdict signed by the forelady 3-2-23. docket number 2022-gs-15-00593, the state of south carolina, county op collison in the court of general session, the jewel term of 2022, the state versus richard alexand murdaugh, defendant, indictment for murder sc code 16-3-001 0, cdr code 00116, verdict, guilty. signed by the forelady, date 3-2-23. docket number 2022-gs 15-0595, the state of south carolina county of collison, court of general sessions julyterm july 2022, the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, defendant, indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. sc code-16-23-0490, cdr code 0549, verdict guilty, signed by the foreperson of the jury, date 3-2-23. docket number 2022 gs-15-00594, the state of south carolina, county of collison, court of general sessions, july term july 2022, the state version richard alexander marshall faulk murdaugh, commission of a crime during a vi

the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, indictment of a weapon and commitment of a violent crimened by the foreperson of digitjury. docket knows and. the state of south carolina court of general sessionsjuly term carolina court of general sessions july term 2022, the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, defendant. indictment for possession of a weapon during commitment of a violent crime. verdict, it guilty. signed of thejury crime. verdict, it guilty. signed of the jury three to 23. mighten four lady and defendant of the _ mighten four lady and defendant of the jury if that is the verdict _ of the jury if that is the verdict of each and everyjury please — verdict of each and everyjury please let it be known they are raising — please let it be known they are raising your right hand. any individual polling requested. they— individual polling requested. they will individually pull of the jury— they will individually pull of the jury according to their juror— the jury according to their juror numbers. you are watching court sessions where richard alex murdaugh was been found gui

richard alexander murdaugh, defendant.ndictment for murder sc code 16-3-0010 cdr code 0116. okay. guilty verdict. signed by the forelady. 32/23. docket number 2022-gs-15-00593. the state of south carolina county of as you will son in the court of general sessions the july term of 2022. the state vs. richard alexander murdaugh, defendant. indictment for murder sc code 16-3-0010 cdr code 0116, verdict guilty. signed by the forelady. date 3/2 of 23. docket number 2022-gs 15-00595. the state of south carolina county of coal tan, court of general session july term 2022. the state vs. richard alexander murdaugh, defendant. indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime sc code- code-16-23-0490. cdr code 0549. verdict, guilty. signed by the foreperson of the jury date 3/2/23. docket number 2022 gs-15-00594. the state of south carolina county of culoton court of general sessions july term 2022. the state vs. richard alexander murdaugh, defendant, indictment for possession of a weapon during the comm

july, the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, indictment for murder. code 16-3-0010. code 0116. okay. guilty verdict. signed by fore lady, 3/2/tw23. >> docket, state of south carolina county, in court of general sessions, july term of 2022, the state versus murdaugh, indictment for murder, code 16-3-0010. cdc code 0116. verdict, guilty, signed by fore lady. date 3/2 of 23. >> docket 2022. state of south carolina countingy coltin court of general session, july term 2022, the state versus rich article murdaugh, indictment for possess of a weapon during commission of a v violent crime. code, dash 0490. cdc code 0549, very guilty, signed by t the foreperson of the jury. dock it number -- state of south carolina, county. court of general sessions, july term 2022. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, indictment for position of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, verdict guilty. signed by the foreperson of the jury. 3/2/23. >> >> thank you. madame fore lady and members of the jury, if that is the verdict of each and every juror please lea let it be kno

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the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, defendant. indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a vile want crime, ds code 16-23-0490. cdr code 0549, verdict guilty. signed by the foreperson of a jury, 3/2/23. >> thank you. madam forelady and members of the jury, if that is the verdict, each and every juror, please let it be known by raising your right hands. thank you. any individual polling requested? >> we do, your honor. >> madam clerk, you'll need to individually poll the jury according to their juror numbers. >> number 193, was this your verdict? >> yes. >> is it still your verdict? >> yes. >> juror 254, is this your verdict? >> yes. >> is it still your verdict? >> yes. >> juror 326. was this your verdict? >> yes. >> is it still your verdict? >> yes. >> juror 530, was this your verdict? >> yes. >> is this your verdict? >> yes. >> juror 544. >> yes. >> was this your verdict? >> yes. >> is it still your verdict? >> yes. >> juror 572, was this your verdict? >> yes. >> is it still your verdict? >> yes. >> juror 578

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i ask you to return a verdict of guilty against the defendant, richard alexander murdaugh. >> this isbased on circumstantial evidence because there is no murder weapon, there's no blood on who they believe to be the murderer, there is no eyewitness. this is difficult. this is not a slam dunk in any way. >> reporter: those obsessed with the true crime saga ready for tomorrow. >> there are many people who are still on the fence about whether he did it, how he did it, and why he did it. there's still a lot more to come out in this case. >> our thanks to eva. >>> up next, how a team of gymnasts in a historically black university is flipping the script on the sport they love and the olympic star in their corner. aah, it's a good day to cough. oh, no! bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! hmmm, ok. not coughing at yoga? antiquing not coughing? not coughing at the movies?! hashtag still not coughing?! aaah. oww! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. it's not cough season. it's always comeback

. >> richard alexander murdaugh loved, i think he loved maggie. i think he loved paul. han that? he loved alex. >> reporter: if convicted, alex murdaugh faces 30 years to life in prison. if he is not convicted, he could still face life in prison for financial crimes. some of which he has admitted to during this trial. norah? >> nikki battiste, who has been covering the trial for us, thank you. well, tonight, tens of millions across the south from texas to mississippi are bracing for a likely outbreak of tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash flooding. meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel is following the path of the storm for us. good evening, mike. >> reporter: norah, good evening. we are in the midst of what is likely to be a significant severe weather outbreak antecedent know my three dangerous in particular, tornadoes, five, places like dallas and little block affectet in the middle. than risk for high winds, 75-mile-per-hour greater, hurricane force winds, 2-inch diameter hail, could be the size of tennis balls or larger, in isolated spots.

. >> in the court of general sessions, in the term of 2022, july, the state versus richard alexander murdaugh, defendant. indictment for murder, sc code 16-3-0010, cdr code 0116 -- guilty verdict. >> mr. murdaugh, you having been found guilty of two counts of murder involving your wife and your son, two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. >> reporter: the unanimous verdict coming just three hours after the defense made its final case for murdaugh. murdaugh's team painting a picture of a botched investigation, and saying murdaugh didn't have time to kill his wife maggie and son paul and get rid of the evidence. >> he's got 17 minutes. 17 minutes. he would have to be a magician to make all that evidence disappear. >> reporter: the defense arguing the truth is simple. that it had to be two shooters with two guns. murdaugh's attorneys flipping the prosecution's script. arguing that while he lied about being at the kennels minutes before the murders, that video captured the conversation of a happy family. >> he's got a bird in his mouth! >> bubba! >> hey, bub

releasing the photo of richard alexander murdaugh, what he said to the judge today, and what the judge said back to him. eva pilgrim is just back from the courthouse. tonight her exclusive interview with that juror as alex murdaugh is sent to prison for life. >> reporter: with his hands and feet shackled, alex murdaugh to be sentenced for the grisly murders of his wife and son, but the convicted killer first proclaiming his innocence. >> i'm innocent. i would never hurt my wife, maggie, and i would never hurt my son, pawpaw. >> reporter: the judge having none of it. >> that is so unfortunate because you had such a lovely family. >> reporter: saying it was heartbreaking to see the lawyer he knew personally go from grieving husband and father to the man guilty of their murders. >> i know you have to see paul and maggie during the nighttime when you are attempting to go to sleep. i'm sure they come and visit you. i'm sewer sure. >> all day and every night. >> yeah, i'm sure. and they will continue to do so. and reflect on the last time they looked you in the eyes. >> reporter: and given o

>> the defendant, richard alexander murdaugh, wishes to take the stand. >> the truth, the whole truthg but the truth? >> i'd like to play the 911 call that's in evidence as defendant's exhibit number 9. >> my son had a boat wreck. and there's been threats for months and months and months. pawpaw, i should have known. >> we just heard you say, "i should have known." what are you referring to? >> i said, "pawpaw, i should have known." i was referring to pawpaw got so many threats. so i'm just telling him, pawpaw, i should have known. >> in the entire history of this newspaper, this is the biggest, most impactful story that we've ever covered. even as it sprawls across the low country, this is a story that engulfs hampton county people and hampton county families. >> for the most part, it's just your average, everyday, hard-working american. >> you don't just know everyone. you know, like, everyone's grandma and their cousin. >> you do, but it's also good if something happens. it's just you're like one big family. ♪ >> before these murdaugh cases started happening, if you knew where hamp

state of south carolina, i ask you to return a verdict of guilty against the defendant richard alexander murdaugh for the murderer of his wife, maggie and his son, paul and for his possession of firearms during the commission of those malicious . thank you all for your attention during this long trial. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen. that will be it for this day. we will resume at 9:30 tomorrow morning. if you'll go to the jury room and you'll be dismissed in just a few minutes from the jury room. please do not discuss the case at all with anyone, including your fellow jurors. >> neil: all right. the prosecution rests. creighton waters has made his case and said that alec murdaugh killed his wife, killed his son, paul out of a desperation in the middle of a financial crisis. there was a gathering storm he said and the hound were at the gate when the murdaugh family was shot down. two of the members of the murdaugh family. he even addressed the double gun issue using regular shotgun to kill his 22-year-old son paul, according to creighton waters and then a rifle to executed his wife, maggie. o

. >> the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant indictment for murder guilty, guilty, indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: alex murdaugh was immediately handcuffed and led from the court. no obvious signs of emotion on his face. as he contemplated the reality that the jury simply did not buy his excuses for the initially lying to the police about his whereabouts and movements on the night is why and youngest son were shot to death. murdaugh was portrayed as a serial liar by the prosecution who painstakingly went through murdaugh's long history of stealing millions of dollars from his law partners and from his clients and the attorney said if marc spent so much of his life telling lies, the jury should conclude he was lying again now. and to emphasize that point, they showed a video on murdaugh face -- on which adam rutt voice could be heard contradicting his early claims to police by putting him at the scene of the murders just minutes before all and maggie murdaugh were shot to death. >> their voice was hear

state of south carolina, i asked you to return a verdict of guilty against the defendant richard alexander murdaughg out its double murder case against alex murdaugh. >> because he was the threat to maggie and paul. he knows there's no vigilante out there. >> reporter: the prosecutor slamming murdaugh as a chief and a liar who killed his wife and son to avoid a decade of financial crimes from being discovered. >> and he fooled maggie and paul, too. and they paid for it with their lives. don't let him fool you, too. >> reporter: waters telling the jury the gun used to kill maggie murdaugh has since disappeared but that her husband would've been familiar with it. >> family weapons were used to commit this crime. >> reporter: while recalling all the details data, video and testimony presented to the jury over the nearly six-week trial. >> and after an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes. >> reporter: with emotional descriptions painting the state's picture of maggie and paul murdaugh's final moments on

their bodies were found by maggie's husband and paul's father, richard alexander murdaugh. >> the investigation into their murders was extremely closed. authorities were being very tight-lipped about what evidence they had gathered, how exactly they even had died. it was all very shrouded in mystery. >> while the murdaugh family owned hundreds of acres in this area, the people who are their neighbors wouldn't talk much about the family or exactly what happened, just saying that they were good people. >> when the murders happened, the town stopped talking completely. it was truly this, sort of, ghost town feel of -- we can't say anything about it because either we're scared or we know too much or we could be next. >> you felt the dome over this little county starting to crack. and since that time, it pretty much has broken wide open. paul did some bad stuff. none of that warrants being killed that way. yeah, i think that was the one big question. there's something that's not being told. >> i just can't imagine anybody being hated that much. >> it was shocking to hear about paul and maggie. but i

. >> the state versus richard alexander murdaugh. indictment for murder, at sea code 16 that three data 0010. see they are code 0116. verdict? guilty. >> alex murdaugh has been found guilty for the murdaugh murder of his wife and son. a dramatic downfall for the former south carolina attorney. for more on this, i want to bring in david wilkes. cheeks investigative reporter. he has been covering this from the beginning. from south carolina, criminal attorney chris adams. i say, you followed this trial since day one. where you survived how this ended? how quickly the jury came to a verdict? >> you know. it was kind of surprising, i think that we were trying to be prepared for all outcomes. we were still in the process of pre-writing stories. and settling in for the day. i was planning to go and grabbed it or at one of the fine establishment it's in the borough. and people started spread in every direction, and there was movement in the courtroom. and i realized, you know, this is actually happening. so i think we prepared for every even

a defendant richard alexander murdaugh is charged with the murder of maggie -- margaret murdaugh and paul murdaugh. the state must proved that the defendant killed margaret murdaugh and paul murdaugh with malice of forethought. malice is hatred, i'll will or hostility towards another person. it is the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse. and with an intent to inflict an injury or under the circumstances that the law will infer an evil intent. malice of forethought does not require that malice exist for any particular time before the act is committed. but malice must exist in the mind of the defendant just before an at the time the act is committed. therefore, there must be a combination of the previous evil intent and the act. malice of forethought may be expressed or inferred. these terms expressed an inferred do not mean different kinds of malice, but merely the manner in which malice may be shown to exist. that is by direct evidence or inference from the facts and circumstances which are proven. expressed malice is shown when a person speaks words, whi

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. >> the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. >> the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. >> we're very disappointed with the verdict. >> justice was done today. it doesn't matter who your family is. it doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have or doesn't matter what you think, how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. >> murdaugh who comes from a very prominent south carolina family now faces 30 to 50 years in prison without parole on each murder count. he also faces up to five years for each weapons charge. sentencing is set for later this morning. and joining us now msnbc legal analyst. the prosecution built a sprawling case on circumstantial evidence. there was no direct evidence and it appears murdau

and that person is the defendant, richard alexander murdaugh. >> john: only one person had the motive, means, opportunity, etc., to commit these crimes. however, there's no blood, there's no dna, there's a little bit of gunshot residue but that would be expected given the circumstances and no murder weapons. so, how do you pin it on him? >> other than -- yeah, there's problems. listen, kudos to the prosecutor for making that necessary and compelling argument. he's the only one. but wait a second, in recent time literally a couple days ago there was an expert for the defense who said the evidence was consistent with two shooters. now, they don't even have to believe that, they just have to entertain it and if it's even possible it blows the state's theory out of the water and like you said, for every action a reaction. they have watched date line murder mystery, studied csi. they know when you shoot a gun at close range you will be covered with items like blood, tissue, etc., and he wasn't. that is a problem they must hammer home on the closing argument to overcome their challenges. >>

st carolina, i ask you to return a verdict of guilty against the defendant, richard you alexander murdaugh, for the murder of his wife, maggie, and his son, paul, and for his possession of firearms during the commission of those malicious offenses. >> reporter: now, the prosecutor also spent time explaining what reasonable doubt meant to the jury. jake, i anticipate tomorrow when the defense gets up to present its closing argument, they're going to focus heavily on reasonable doubt, circumstantial evidence and things like that, as they try to prevent alex murdaugh from being convicted of killing his wife and son. >> diane gallagher in walterboro, south carolina, thank you so much. closing arguments are the focus of cnn primetime this evening. join our senior analyst tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. >>> coming up, one week after a shooting that killed a florida tv reporter and a 9-year-old girl, florida governor ron desantis is calling out a local prosecutor. why he's calling her actions a failure. stay with us. bacocon and garlic aioli. i've tasted greatness. great garlic tho

. >> state versus richard alexander murdaugh, department, indictment for murder, code 16-3-0010, cdr 0116, verdict, guilty. >> a jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted on two counts of weapons possession. following the verdict, the defense immediately moved for a mistrial, which the judge denied. the defense and prosecution then addressed reporters outside the courtroom. >> we're very disappointed in the verdict, but -- >> justice was done today. it doesn't matter who your family is. it doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn't matter what you think, how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, justice will be done in south carolina. >> murdaugh faces 30 to 50 years in prison without parole on each murder count. he also faces up to five years for each weapons charge. sentencing is set for later this morning. >> i've got to say, you know, gene, usually, if the jury is out for three hours, they come back in, i do

murdaugh murder defendant indictment foroc murder, guilty verdict.. the state of south carolina, county of collington in the court of general sessions, the july term of 2020 two .2022 the state versus richard alexander murdock, defendant indictment for murder, verdict guilty. >> now that is the moment reality set in fo alex murdaugh, the smooth talking scioaugh, thn of an eli. carolina family found guilty onl on all counts in the murder trial of his wife and son. a panel of 12 jurors returned a guilty verdict after fewer than three hours ofit w deliberationass. and it was so quick to quick. in fact, the judge didn't even offer him dinner. e now, according to reporters insy the room, his only living son , buster, sat in the gallery shaking his head in disbelief. but he did not appear to shed a tear. now, the trial really took thats turn after the jury saw a keyaw piece of evidence. it was a snapchat video taken by paul murdaugh at a dog minut kennels just minutes before hees and maggie were killed. lled >> listen.listen. you're going to hear three separate voices now for[is tibarbara. this is a chick now alex murdaugh maintained for years that he was not there. but when witnesses said he was third vo

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the state versus richard alexander murdoch defendant indictment for murder, verdict guilty. >> laura: that was the moment reality set in for alex mur murdaugh, the sound of an elite south carolina family. found guilty on all counts in the murder trial of his boyfriend. son. it was so quick and in fact the judge did not offer a dinner. according to reporters in the room, his only living son, buster, sat in the gallery shaking his head in disbelief. but he did not appear to shed a tear. the trial really to turn after the jury saw key piece of evidence. it was a snap to video taken by paul murdoch at the dog kennels just minutes before he and maggie were killed. listen. you are going to hear three separate voices. [indistinct] >> it is beginning. >> it is a chicken. >> come here. >> catch. >> laura: he maintained that he was not there. but one witnesses said he was their voice, murdoch admitted the lie. here is why. >> as my addiction evolved over time, i would get any situations or circumstances where i would get paranoid, thinking, and it could be anything that triggered it. once i told of the line, i mean, i told my family. i have to keep l

the state versus richard alexander murdoch defendant indictment for murder, verdict guilty. >> laura: that was the moment reality set in for alex mur murdaugh, the sound of a