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‘Murdaugh Murders’ Saga: South Carolina Attorney General Summons Reinforcements
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First, the past of the verb “plead” is “pled,” not “pleaded.” Second, John Meadors is the one who got Justin Mallory wrongly convicted of killing his wife, Nakia, until DNA evidence exonerated Justin. Third, this is not a game with fans of one team or the other. A murder is a physical fact, like the traffic light. It can either be red or green at any time, but not both at the same time. Either the man, Murdaugh, killed his wife and younger son or he did not. I have not heard a more stupid theory of a motive for an alleged crime since Meadors’ then-protegee, and now Zelenka-protegee, Hatchet-for-Hire Heather, tried to frame Dr. Marie Faltas for supposedly harassing her neighbor by photographing that neighbor hosting a known drug dealer, not to document the activity of those two, but to “have root on [them], voodoo.” Really, really, really, that was said at trial and no one but God protected Dr. Faltas from that garbage. Fourth, Meadors ran for judge TWICE and lost, probably because even the General Assembly people sensed he does not have the moral core to be a judge.
The AP Stylebook and The Chicago Book of Style, which are considered the standards used in journalism prefer “pleaded” for use in court and legal stories, which is why we see it used in almost every professional new media. It’s also the term I hear used by legal professionals.
Oxford Dictionaries say that “pled” is perfectly fine, but is dialect specific. I wouldn’t get all uppity correcting the use of either: they’re both OK. Live and let speak. (I am a writer married to a copy editor.)
Okay, thanks. I am not uppity, just peeved and worried that next someone will tell us the past of lead is “leaded,” not “led.” Already, people who should know better are writing “dived” instead of “dove” and “shined” instead of “shone.” “Shined” is okay if followed by “shoes,” “boots,” etc. Language and grammar are music; do you like songs out of tune? Let’s get some polite debate for poor FITS to get his clicks.
FITS, seems no one else is interested in this story even after you touted it on your Christmas eve video. Nonetheless, I need to correct myself for the record. Justin Mallory was never convicted after two trials with John Meadors as the prosecutor. Justin Mallory’s first trial ended with a hung jury; the second was before Judge W. Thomas Cooper (not Tommy Cooper, who is known to walk out of the courtroom in the middle of advocacy, but the other, more judicially-tempered one), who acquitted Mallory. The judicially-tempered Judge Cooper proved correct after DNA evidence identified the real killer. Mallory had asked for an investigation into who the real killer was; and to the credit of then Chief Wilson (not the AG but the Richland County Sheriff), an investigation was done. If you’re counting those two Mallory trials to Meadors’ credit of a 100, you shouldn’t. Who knows how many results of those other 98 even gave a correct result? AND ELSE BUT RELATED SOMETHING BOTHERED ME VERY MUCH IN YOUR Christmas eve video, FITS. You said, “Alan Wilson is ‘playing with house money.'” I know you meant Murdaugh will never taste freedom again even if acquitted of the murders. BUT ALAN WILSON and the team he put together should NOT BE ‘PLAYING’ AT ALL WITH MURDER CASES. If Murdaugh did not commit the murders, Wilson should be out there investigation who did and why. Society should be protected from those people. Instead, the real murderer(s), if other than Murdaugh, are protected by Wilson’s and Meadors’ unwillingness to retreat and admit they had the wrong man for the murders, just as in Justin Mallory case. Again, this is not a football game. Do NOT make it political.
Okay, thanks. I am not uppity, just peeved and worried that next someone will tell us the past of lead is “leaded,” not “led.” Already, people who should know better are writing “dived” instead of “dove” and “shined” instead of “shone.” “Shined” is okay if followed by “shoes,” “boots,” etc. Language and grammar are music; do you like songs out of tune? Let’s get some polite debate for poor FITS to get his clicks.