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🚨🚨🚨Alex Murdaugh Double Murder Trial Day 11 (Feb. 6) Megathread begins now 🚨🚨🚨

The state will continue presenting its case that Murdaugh killed his wife and son when court resumes at 9:30 am. I’ll tweet updates.

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First up: with the jury excused until 11:30 am, prosecutors will call at least one more witness, after 6 already, to testify solely about Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes. The state believes the jury should hear about that. The defense says it’s irrelevant. Judge hasn’t ruled.

Our story on that issue from Friday, when the son of Murdaugh’s late housekeeper delivered powerful testimony about how Murdaugh betrayed him, using his mother’s death to steal $3.4M from his own insurance carriers. Satterfield’s son didn’t get a dime postandcourier.com/murdaugh-updat…

And here is our Sunday front page story about how the Murdaughs’ influence persisted even in the early days of the double murder investigation

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The state will continue to call witnesses this week, financial and otherwise.

Expect to hear from Murdaugh's older brother, Randy Murdaugh, as well as Curtis "Cousin Eddie" Smith, the Walterboro trucker charged with acting as Murdaugh's accomplice on a host of money/drug crimes.

Albert the alligator and the still-unnamed Eastern Kingsnake are up and about this morning twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I got to the courthouse about an hour before it is set to open. There was a line waiting to get in even then. Expecting a packed courtroom today

We know for sure we will hear from Mark Tinsley this morning with the jury excused. He is the attorney for the family of Mallory Beach, who sued the Murdaughs after the 2019 boat crash that killed Beach. Paul was criminally charged with drunkenly driving the boat as it crashed.

Tinsley will likely testify about his efforts to compel Murdaugh to disclose his finances. During the course of that case, Murdaugh had claimed he was broke and had no money to pay the Beach family. Tinsley wanted proof. A hearing was scheduled for June 10, 2021, on the issue.

Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed three days before the hearing, and it was postponed and never rescheduled.

Murdaughs attorneys say there is no evidence their client was actually going to have to detail his finances at or after that 6/10/21 hearing, so this is all moot.

Court is back in session. As expected, the state calls Beach family attorney Mark Tinsley to the stand.

Tinsley's the state's 7th financial witness.

We've heard from PMPED CFO Jeanne Seckinger, Michael Gunn of Forge Consulting, Bamberg lawyer Chris Wilson, Palmetto State Bank CEO Jan Malinowski, Tony Satterfield (Gloria's son) and state grand jury forensic accountant Carson Burney

Tinsley testifies that Murdaugh had some - but not much - insurance coverage available to pay out to the boat crash victims.

Tinsley said he demanded a substantial amount to be paid personally to the Beach family by Murdaugh himself.

Tinsley: “The Beach family stood on the causeway for eight days while their daughter’s body was in the water.” There was no amount of money someone would willingly take to go through what they went through.

Tinsley testifies Alex Murdaugh approached him at a trial lawyers’ association function ssaid something like: “Hey bo, what’s this I’m hearing about what you’re saying. I thought we were friends.”

Tinsley: “I took it as him trying to intimidate me … and sort of bullying me into backing off.”

Tinsley testifies that in fall 2020, he was told Alex Murdaugh was broke and could cobble together only about $1 million to give the Beaches in a settlement.

Tinsley said he didn’t believe that. “I know that he’s actively making money, and he just can’t possibly be broke ..."

Tinsley continued: "... if he’s making money the way he’s making money.”

The Beaches were aware of the Murdaughs’ “generational wealth as well.”

Tinsley testifies $1 million was nowhere enough for the Beach family.

“They want accountability,” Tinsley said of his clients. “They want a pound of flesh. Whatever that’s going to be, it’s only going to be from a jury or from a substantial settlement.”

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Tinsley testifies his push to reveal Alex Murdaugh's finances and secure a huge payout from him for the Beach family was met with a lot of pushback in the legal community.

“There’s a lot of grumbling and shock that I’m actually going to hold Alex personally responsible.”

Tinsley testifies he was not just going to settle for a summary of Murdaugh’s net worth. He wanted the details.

“I wanted the accounts because I knew the only way he could be broke is if money had been hidden.”

My daily TikTok update on where things stand in the Murdaugh trial tiktok.com/t/ZTRGyWrYq/

Tinsley testifies the Maggie/Paul slayings made him question the viability of continuing to sue Alex Murdaugh in the boat crash case.

“Pretty quickly, I recognized that the case against Alex, if he were in fact the victim of some vigilante, would be over.”

The tragedy, if Alex were the victim and not the perpetrator, would have cloaked him in sympathy - drastically reducing the chances a jury would have ordered Alex to pay up in the boat crash case, Tinsley says.

This is exactly what state prosecutors wanted Tinsley to say.

Again, prosecutors are making the case that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son in order to portray himself as the "victim of an unspeakable tragedy" and distract from the inquiries that could have exposed his decade-long financial crime spree.

The state ends its questioning. Murdaugh defense attorney Phillip Barber rises to cross-examine Tinsley.

A testy exchange between Phillip Barber and Tinsley. Barber asks questions challenging whether the boat crash case was going to trial in summer 2021, with all lots of legal questions/motions pending.

Tinsley: “Maybe you’ve never tried a civil case.” Says he was ready for trial.

Barber and Tinsley argue about whether Judge Daniel Hall actually granted a request to compel financial records from Murdaugh in October 2021. It’s a battle of semantics in which they are reading the same sheet of paper and coming to different conclusions about Hall’s intention.

From what I could hear, Hall essentially said: turn over the financial records or we can have a hearing on the motion to compel, if necessary.

Tinsley says that shows Hall wanted Murdaugh to release records.

“I understand you don’t want to acknowledge what I’ve handed you.”

Barber is arguing that it was premature for Murdaugh to have to turn over financial records. That typically doesn’t happen until after the jury has awarded a verdict, he says.

Tinsley: “You’re making a statement of law. I’m telling you what was happening.”

Barber: Even if you got a motion to compel Murdaugh’s finances on 6/10/21, isn’t it true all you could have gotten was a net worth statement?

Tinsley: “Not even remotely close.”

Tinsley testifies “I knew he had money.”

He says the reason he pushed so hard for Murdaugh’s bank records is that Alex Murdaugh didn’t want him to have them. “If you’re a good plaintiff’s lawyer, everything you do in a case is to put pressure on the other side."

Tinsley testifies he was pressuring Murdaugh to settle the case. "What I cared about was putting pressure on Alex. … I knew he didn’t want me to have it.”

There are 54,000 people watching this on just the Law and Crime livestream, one of many livestreams of this case.

We are deep in Hypothetical World right now as Barber and Tinsley face off.

Barber is trying to establish that there would have been some time after 6/10/21 before Murdaugh would have had to disclose his bank records.

T: “There wouldn’t have been an explosion June 10. But the fuse was lit the moment that information became available in this case.”

Waters is up on redirect, hammering home his point.

Waters: “If the hearing takes place on June 10, 2021, what is the net effect of what could happen with that?”

Tinsley: “The discovery of everything he’s done.”

Tinsley steps down.

Alex Murdaugh's old law partner, Ronnie Crosby, is the state's next witness.

Waters tells the judge he wants to question Crosby about a conversation between Griffin, Murdaugh, Crosby and other PMPED attorneys held at John Marvin Murdaugh’s hunting lodge shortly before SLED arrived 6/10/21 to interview Alex, Buster, John Marvin and Randy Murdaugh.

Murdaugh defense attorney Jim Griffin: “Your honor, I’m still at a loss as to what he’s attempting to accomplish through this.”

“I don’t know, either,” Judge Clifton Newman said.

Judge Newman seems to establish that Murdaugh and Griffin lost any attorney-client privilege protection when they had that conversation in front of several other people.

Crosby is called to the stand. He will be the state's 8th financial (non-jury) witness.

Crosby testifies the meeting included him, fellow PMPED attorneys Mark Ball and Lee Cope, Cory Fleming, Jim Griffin, Buster, John Marvin and possibly others. They spoke inside John Marvin’s hunting lodge.

They discussed what Alex had done after coming home from work 6/7/21.

Crosby testified the PMPED attorneys had been with Alex Murdaugh every day since the slayings. There were there as friends.

Crosby remembers that PMPED attorneys Danny Henderson and Randy Murdaugh were also there.

The group met because the Murdaughs were set to be interviewed by SLED that day at John Marvin's house.

Crosby: “We were there as friends to provide support and listen.”

Defense attorney Jim Griffin asks Crosby if Alex Murdaugh believed all those PMPED lawyers were acting as his personal counsel in that meeting. Crosby says he doesn’t know what was in Alex’s mind at the time. “I never had a perception that I was representing him.”

Griffin asks if Crosby or anyone else made clear they were there as friends, not acting as Murdaugh’s lawyers, during that conversation. Griffin also asks if the PMPED lawyers advised Murdaugh he could lose attorney-client privilege by having these conversations.

“We’re all lawyers, other than John or Buster,” Crosby testifies. “I don’t think anybody needed to say that. It never crossed my mind.”

That ends Ronnie Crosby's non-jury testimony. He steps down from the stand.

Judge Newman announces that he will make his decision regarding the admissibility of financial evidence in Murdaugh’s double murder trial after a 5-minute break.

Prosecutor Waters tells Judge Newman he wants to introduce evidence regarding Alex Murdaugh’s Labor Day 2021 roadside shooting. He has a witness ready to speak to that. Judge says he will deal with that later on. That means there could be more non-jury testimony in this trial.

Mark Tinsley was a financial witness Judge Newman specifically asked to hear from. I imagine his testimony this morning will play a big role in Newman's ruling, one way or another. Pivotal moment incoming.

The Youtube comments on these livestreams are something.

The takes range from "HE'S SO GUILTY!!" to "Crimes?? Maybe."

We're back.

Judge Newman GRANTS the state's request to introduce Alex Murdaugh's alleged financial crimes as evidence in the murder trial.

Newman: “The state argues that the logical nexus between the murders and other crimes is that the looming exposure of financial crimes provided motive for the murders and is evidence of malice, an essential element of the crime of murder.”

Newman cites PMPED CFO Jeanne Seckinger’s confrontation of Murdaugh on the morning of 6/7/21 regarding some $792,000 in missing legal fees from a case Murdaugh recently worked.

Newman also notes that Murdaugh on 6/7/21 was preparing for an upcoming 6/10/21 hearing on a motion to compel disclosures of his financial records. Records that might have detailed his alleged thefts.

And Newman notes testimony from Palmetto State Bank CEO Jan Malinowski that the Hampton bank would have cut Murdaugh off if they found out he had been stealing millions of dollars from his clients and law partners over the years.

Judge: “I find that the jury is entitled to consider whether the apparent desperation of Mr. Murdaugh because of his dire financial situation, the threat of being exposed for committing the crimes for which he was later charged, resulted in the commission of the alleged crimes.”

Judge Newman doesn’t seem to be placing any restrictions on what financial evidence can make it in. It looks like the state can go for it, full steam ahead.

Defense attorney Jim Griffin rises and says the defense has written up some proposed instructions on limiting what can and can’t be mentioned re: Murdaugh’s financial crimes with the jury present. Newman has pledged to look it over.

The state might voluntarily agree to some of those stipulations - probably on things they weren’t going to bring up anyway. Any other disputes on limitations will have to go before Judge Newman for a ruling.

Griffin wants this settled before financial witnesses are called.

The defense and prosecution will huddle on those proposed instructions before the first financial witnesses are called (or re-called) to testify tomorrow.

Griffin formally objects to Judge Newman's ruling for the record. So that issue is preserved for appeal.

The jury is being called in now. Lunch will wait.

The state calls its 28th witness, Muschelle "Shelley" Smith, caregiver for Murdaugh’s mother.

The prosecutor questioning Smith is John Meadors, hired in January by the S.C. AG's Office and added to this case.

To my knowledge, this is the first time we've heard from Smith in this saga.

Smith testifies Alex Murdaugh’s mother, Libby, was suffering from Alzheimer’s in June 2021, at the time of the slayings.

Meadors: “Was she aware of what was going on around her?”

“No,” Smith says.

Reminder: A big part of Alex Murdaugh’s alibi is that he left Moselle to visit his ailing mother on the evening of the slayings.

Smith testifies she got to Alex Murdaugh’s parents’ house at 7:45 p.m. on the evening of the slayings.

Smith says she didn’t want to disturb Miss Libby, who was sleeping in bed when she arrived.

Smith testifies about Alex Murdaugh coming to visit that night.

He arrived late. That was unusual in her two years working for the Murdaughs, Smith testifies.

Smith testifies that it took her a few minutes to let Alex Murdaugh in after he called the house phone and said he was outside.

He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He had on cloth shoes. Like Sperry’s. No socks.

Smith on Alex Murdaugh's demeanor on the night of the slayings when he came to visit his mother.

“He was fidgeting.”

Smith testifies Murdaugh stayed with his mother for 20 minutes. He spoke with her initially, telling her he was there and had come to check up on her because his father was in the hospital.

Meadors: “In your opinion as a caregiver, did she even know he was there?
Smith: “No.”

Oh boy. Smith testifies that a few days after the slayings, Alex Murdaugh met with her in his mother's room and told her he had been visiting with his mother for 30-40 minutes on the night of the slayings.

Smith testifies he was there for 20 minutes.

Smith is weeping on the witness stand. She says the Murdaughs are a good family. She said the conversation with Murdaugh, when he claimed to have been visiting with his mother for longer, disturbed her so much she called her brother about it.

Smith testifies that after the slayings, Alex Murdaugh asked her about the fact that she was planning to get married soon. He mentioned that weddings can be expensive and offered to help her with the expense. She said that was the first time they had talked about her wedding.

Smith testifies Murdaugh also offered to pull strings to get her a better job at the school where she worked.

Smith testifies that a few days after the slayings, Alex Murdaugh came by his parents house at 6:30 a.m. He had never come by that early in the two years she worked with the Murdaugh family, Smith testifies.

Smith testifies Murdaugh knocked on the door, and she let him in. Murdaugh’s mother was sleeping. Smith says she can’t recall if Murdaugh checked on his mother. Murdaugh had “blue something” in his hand. He was cradling it in his arms, she says. It looked like a tarp.

John Meadors is so good at this.

Smith is obviously distressed on the stand, and Meadors is figurately holding her hand as he walks her through this testimony that only she can offer.

A photo of the blue raincoat/tarp Murdaugh brought into the house is admitted into evidence. We should get a look at it this evening when the pool photographers are allowed to make photographs of the exhibits.

Smith testifies Murdaugh left the house after dropping off the blue coat and came back later in a white truck that she thought was his father’s. Then he left again in a black truck. She testifies he also had a cut/bruise on his forehead that day. Not sure what all this means.

We appear to be at more than 400 exhibits.

Yet again in this trial, it’s becoming difficult to follow important moments when lawyers/witnesses are directly referring to exhibits we cannot see.

Meadors has Smith identify Alex Murdaugh for the record and then ends his questioning. Defense attorney Jim Griffin rises to cross-examine Smith.

Griffin unfolds a big blue tarp in the middle of the courtroom. He asks Smith if something like this is what she saw Murdaugh bring into his parents’ house days after the slayings. She says yes. Griffin asks if she would confuse a blue tarp with a blue rainjacket. She says no.

Griffin seems to be challenging whether the blue, GSR-coated rainjacket the state has is the same thing as the blue tarp that Smith saw Murdaugh bring into his parents’ house in the days after the slayings.

Griffin asks about Alex Murdaugh's offer to help pay for Smith's wedding.

“He was just being nice, wasn’t he?” Griffin asks.

“Yes," she says.

Smith says she was referring to "Mr. Alex Murdaugh" when she said the family were good people.

Griffin undercuts what the jury just heard about Alex Murdaugh’s behavior when he visited his mother on the night of 6/7/21.

Griffin: “Is his normal behavior kind of fidgety?” “Yes.”

“He’s just kind of a fidgety person, right?” “Yes.”

Griffin establishes that Murdaugh lay in bed beside his mother when he visited her. But he didn’t have blood on his shoes or hair. And he didn’t leave blood on the bed.

Griffin establishes that Smith initially told SLED Murdaugh was there at his parents’ house 30-35 minutes on the night of the slayings. Not just 15-20 minutes.

Griffin establishes that Smith didn’t tell SLED about the blue tarp in her first interviews with investigators. She told them about it in a follow-up with SLED in September. Griffin has her repeat over and over that what she saw was a blue tarp, *not* a blue rainjacket.

We are on a short break. But Griffin has done a lot here to try to establish that the blue tarp Smith saw and the blue, GSR-coated rainjacket that prosecutors have mentioned are not the same thing.

We are breaking for lunch until 2:30 p.m.

To recap the first half of the day:

1. The jury will find out all about Alex Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes.

2. Murdaugh’s mother’s caregiver offered some fascinating testimony about his behavior after the slayings, much of which fell apart on cross.

Caught up with Mark Tinsley in a food truck line.

“I’m guessing you and Phil Barber won’t be going out for beers after this, huh,” I said.

Tinsley: “Is that his name?”

My deepest condolences to Phil Barber, who in my experience is a nice guy and a good lawyer.

We're back.

A juror raised concerns during jury selection about having other obligations if the trial ran beyond three weeks. So that juror might have to be excused.

Griffin moves to exclude any evidence about the blue rainjacket, saying that there is nothing linking that jacket to Alex Murdaugh since Smith testified she saw him carrying a blue tarp, not a jacket. Meadors counters that it could have been the blue jacket she saw.

Judge Newman doesn't issue a ruling. Instead, he calls in the jury. We're going forward with Smith still on the stand.

Under further questioning from Meadors, Smith testifies: Days after the slayings Alex Murdaugh told her that if someone asks her, he was with his mother that night for 35-40 minutes.

The state seems to be in trouble with the blue rainjacket evidence.

Smith testifies under Griffin’s cross-examination she saw the blue tarp laid out over a rocking chair at Murdaugh’s parents house the next day. It was not a rainjacket. It was a tarp. No doubt in her mind.

Later, when investigators showed her a photo of a blue rainjacket, she told them she had never seen it before, she testifies.

Prosecutors have said a blue rainjacket that was coated with GSR is a big part of their case. It was mentioned in Creighton Waters' opening statement.

Griffin: “If this rainjacket is what’s in that closet, you’ve never seen Alex Murdaugh with this garment before, have you?”
Smith: “No, I haven’t.”

Griffin finishing cross-examination: It was unusual for Alex to come over at night, but this was an unusual day because Randolph III, his father, had just been hospitalized, right?

Smith: Correct.

Smith steps down.

The state's 29th witness is SLED crime scene unit agent Kristin Moore.

Moore testifies SLED searched the home of Alex Murdaugh’s parents in Almeda. There, they found a blue tarp in a storage container *and* a blue raincoat in a coat closet. Both were found on the second floor.

Moore testifies they found the blue raincoat balled up in the closet. Griffin objects to any further testimony about the coat, and Newman overrules his objection.

I am very curious about what's happening here. For the state's sake, I do hope they have more to link Alex Murdaugh to that blue raincoat than Shelley Smith's testimony just now.

Agent Moore testifies that SLED tested the raincoat several times for blood and found none.

Griffin is now asking about the size of the blue rainjacket. Wonder if we're moving toward a "the rainjacket doesn't fit" moment.

It is taking Moore several minutes to unravel the packaging of this raincoat.

This trial has featured about an entire day's worth of bag crinkling into the microphone.

Forgot to mention, but Griffin earlier established with Moore that SLED did not test the blue tarp at all. Just the rainjacket.

After all that, the jacket doesn't have a tag indicating its size.

Moore steps down. In redirect, prosecutor Savanna Goude establishes that it is a very large raincoat.

Otherwise, not sure what we're doing here.

The state calls its 30th witness, Charleston resident William McElveen, a close friend of Paul Murdaugh.

McElveen reiterates what we heard from Paul's friends Rogan Gibson and Will Loving about the Murdaughs, including how Paul was notorious for using his phone all the time and how Alex/Maggie treated their sons' friends like their own family.

McElveen testifies he hung out with Paul in Charleston two days before he was killed. They went out to a bar on Isle of Palms, the Windjammer, that weekend.

Griffin questions McElveen.

Alex’s relationship with Paul: “They had a very good relationship. They were kind of best friends in a way. They were close.”

Alex’s relationship with Maggie: “From everything I’ve seen, it was great too. I’ve never seen anything negative.”

Griffin establishes with McElveen that Murdaugh was upset and crying when Paul’s friends went to Moselle to see the family after Paul’s death. No more questions for McElveen. He steps down. We’re on a 15-minute break.

There have been a bunch of witnesses, mostly law enforcement, who were open/ talkative with prosecutors and then evasive with the defense.

A few, like Britt Dove, have been happy to talk with either side.

I think McElveen was the first who didn't want to answer anyone.

Murdaugh defense attorney Dick Harpootlian objects to the jury hearing testimony that the blue rainjacket was coated in gunshot residue. He says no one has connected Alex Murdaugh to the jacket, so telling the jury about GSR would be prejudicial.

Harpootlian says Shelley Smith testified that the blue tarp she saw Alex Murdaugh carrying was not the blue rainjacket.

Waters disagrees about what Smith actually testified.

Now they're fighting about what Smith testified and whether she identified what Murdaugh was carrying as the blue rainjacket.

Honestly, I don’t know. She seemed to go back and forth a lot.

Judge Newman overrules the objection.

The state's 31st witness is Bank of America's Natasha Moodie. She is questioned by prosecutor Johnny Ellis James Jr.

Newman tells the jury that they're about to hear about Murdaugh's alleged financial crimes. He tells them they can't consider this evidence in determining Murdaugh's character or his propensity to commit crimes. Just as evidence of his possible motive for the slayings.

Moodie helps the state admit Bank of America bank records into evidence. That's all for her. She steps down.

The state's 32nd witness is Jamie Hall, West Columbia Police Department evidence custodian. She worked in SLED's evidence department until March 2022.

She is being questioned by prosecutor John Meadors.

Judge Clifton Newman has officially signed a 6-page order granting the state's motion to admit the financial crimes as evidence in this case.

Moore testifies she handled gunshot residue kits when she worked for SLED. She is now reviewing the GSR kit that was collected from the hands of Alex Murdaugh on the night of the slayings. 6/7/21.

Moore testifies the 6/7/21 GSR kit of Alex Murdaugh was collected properly, and she passed it along for analysis.

Moore is now testifying about testing for GSR the white T-shirt and green cargo shorts that Murdaugh was wearing on the night of the slayings.

My brain stopped working there, folks. It's Hall who is testifying, not Moore.

Hall testifies about testing the seat belt from Alex Murdaugh's 2021 Chevrolet Suburban.

Hall testifies about testing Alex Murdaugh's shoes on 6/8/21, the day after the slayings. Meadors elicits testimony that she noticed no blood anywhere on the shoes, top or bottom.

Murdaugh told investigators he tried to check Maggie and Paul for pulses. Both were lying in blood.

At some point, I assume we are going to hear the results of all this testing. And I imagine he will learn that they tested + for GSR.

(Murdaugh's attorneys have said he had small amounts of GSR on him, consistent with him picking up a shotgun from Moselle for his protection)

SLED tested Murdaugh's shirt, pants and shoes on 6/8/21, the day after the slayings. Chevy Suburban seatbelt was tested 9/1/21. The blue raincoat was tested 10/5/21.

The state finishes questioning Hall without establishing the results of the test. They were merely explaining how the tests were conducted and how thorough the state was in testing evidence.

On cross-examination, Griffin tries to establish that a subject can get GSR on them merely by picking up a firearm.

Hall says she can't confirm that. She says that's a question for the analyst, SLED's Megan Fletcher.

HUGE moment that could shift the course of this trial

Griffin: In your notes, you mention that Murdaugh’s shirt had small, reddish-brown stains on it. What did those small, reddish-brown stains look like?

Hall: “They looked like small, reddish-brown stains.”

Amazing.

Hall steps down after a gripping series of revelations.

Court adjourns for the day. I'm sure the jury will be up all night thinking about this bombshell conclusion.

Story coming soon.

Whoops. I spoke too soon. The two sides are arguing now about the rain jacket and whether Smith's testimony - or anything else - connects Alex Murdaugh to the jacket.

Harpootlian suggests reviewing the daily transcript of Smith's testimony to determine what Smith actually said.

“She never said that what was in the closet is what he carried in," Harpootlian said.

“It’s a very simple question. It boils down to what she said about what she saw in the closet.”

Judge Newman adjourns court without ruling one way or another. I imagine we will hear a great deal about this tomorrow.

It really tells you how confusing Shelley Smith's testimony was when the two sides can't agree and the judge holds off on ruling.

We are entering our third week of this trial, and we don't even know if the state believes Murdaugh changed his clothes after killing Maggie/Paul, or if the presence of GSR on his shirt/shorts shows he didn't change clothes. Make it make sense.

Here's our full story from the 11th day of Alex Murdaugh's trial.

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This concludes the Alex Murdaugh Double Murder Trial Day 11 Megathread.