Pooty Poot and Jimbo’s posturing aside, it is criminal that “waiting for a transcript” is a legitimate excuse in this day as AI is upon us. I seldom type a text though I send 20-30 daily and only seldom does my old apple phone get it wrong. A verified, digital transcript should be available for free the day the case is decided. Time for SC to fix this scam.
Pooty Poot and Jimbo have a tough row to hoe and even if they were to actually conduct some jury tampering and somehow prevail, Elick has confessed to hundreds of years worth of financial crimes. He’s staying in jail. I doubt PoJim will even get a judge to agree that there are matters to appeal. Bring on the financial crimes confession sessions!
If the lawyers have after-discovered evidence of innocence while an appeal from a conviction is pending, South Carolina law requires them to file a motion WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS to suspend the appeal so they may return to the trial court and present that evidence to the trial court. If the trial court orders a new trial, it has to vacate the conviction(s) first because, under the Fifth Amendment, no one can be tried for the same offense twice. I am NOT a lawyer, only better than most by several judges’ TRANSCRIBED compliments to me.
The French phrase for that principle is “autrefois convict ou autrefois acquit.” Also, if pardoned, the defendant cannot be retried.
So, the press conference Tuesday, God willing and God speed to them, is to announce that they are filing with the Court of Appeals a motion to suspend the appeal and the evidence (affidavits, transcripts, photos, etc.) to support that motion. It is considerate of them to hold that press conference and to probably hand out copies of what is getting filed to avoid the media swarming the Clerk’s office of the Court of Appeals, even though these motions should be on the court’s website few hours or days after they are filed.
So, if all, God willing, goes well for Alex Murdaugh (“AM”), who did NOT kill his wife or his younger son, the Court of Appeals grants his motion to suspend the appeal and he goes back to Judge Clifton Newman.
AM’s defense team should take it from me, the only innocent person EVER to have avoided a wrongful conviction in Judge Clifton Newman’s court (and, thank God, I did it WITHOUT A LAWYER): do NOT put all your eggs in one basket and do NOT leave anything on the table.
First and foremost, go back to the pathologist and get her notes to herself which she testified about and which she had not disclosed.
Second, get EXPERT testimony on the relationship between time of death and stomach contents.
Third, get EVERY internet video launched during trial, specially the so-called animation videos and get an expert to testify that AM could not have fallen back like the cardboard cut-outs in those animations. Living human beings have righting reflexes and other reflexes. Then compare those videos before the judge with the pages in the clerk’s book where she writes the visit to Moselle sealed it for the jurors and with the juror’s morning-after-verdict media interviews where they said EXACTLY what was on those animation videos.
Fourth, get Sara Cappelli’s video and her testimony about the video camera she secretly put at the Moselle entrance.
Fifth and finally, for heaven’s sake, clarify that the real killer(s) did NOT just go to Moselle hoping to find some guns sitting around. The real killer(s) went with one or both of Paul’s previously-stolen guns.
God speed and God bless.
The English phrase for that principle you wasted all that text on is “double jeopardy.” Beyond that, you are living in a legal fantasy world of your own design. Your account handle is incredibly apt. Lots of luck on finding “the real killer(s).”
But the phrase “double jeopardy” alone does not explain the scope of it, meaning that it includes BOTH the once-acquitted and the once-convicted. And in the latter case, why the conviction must be vacated before a new trial starts, with the defendant standing presumed innocent again.
I provide education to the willing-to-learn. If you cannot or would not help, PLEASE do not get in the way and rudely so.
Years before the murder of Paul and Maggie, dozens of complaints were received by the SC Atty General’s office against Murdaugh’s law firm by the people who were ripped off. Both Alan Wilson and Henry McMaster informed their Assistant Attorney Generals to ignore the complaints against the Murdaughs. My son is one of the Asst Atty Gens who was repeatedly told to stand down.
From what I saw from their pitiful “defense” in court, Jim and Pootie Poot think they’re a hell of a lot smarter than they actually are. They are, however, expert at self-promotion and planting absolute nonsense in public. Too bad for them that it seems the State is smarter. Our best hope is that whatever $$$ the Murdaughs are coughing up for his over-priced defense fund is quickly consumed so we won’t have to hear from any of them anytime soon.
I do not think that is the problem at all.
I think the problem is that no one who knew Alex Murdaugh (“AM”) innocent of the murders, not even I, had understood ahead of time how stupidity becomes gospel if repeated often enough. For a man to up and shoot his beloved wife and younger son SOLELY to gain extra-sympathy, in addition to the sympathy he was getting from the death of his father is such a stupid idea no self-respecting, critical-thinking person could possibly have believed it.
But apparently only the lady with the dozen eggs, among the remaining 14 jurors, had that self-respect and critical thinking. We shall, God willing, soon see if other jurors had remorse and pangs of conscience.
Otherwise, if you don’t want to see AM’s dedicated defense team or AM himself on the news, just don’t look.
Prisoners do have rights.” The U.S. Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY, with Justice Alito writing the opinion, that they even have a right to grow a 1/4 inch beard if they want to UNLESS the prison officials can prove that a beard that short can be used to conceal a weapon.
I do not know if a Seikh inmate would be allowed to keep his hair; but fortunately not many Seikhs commit crimes in America. Let’s pray it stays this way.
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Have at it, The Three Stooges, aka Griff Eleck Harpo. LOL!
Pooty Poot and Jimbo’s posturing aside, it is criminal that “waiting for a transcript” is a legitimate excuse in this day as AI is upon us. I seldom type a text though I send 20-30 daily and only seldom does my old apple phone get it wrong. A verified, digital transcript should be available for free the day the case is decided. Time for SC to fix this scam.
Pooty Poot and Jimbo have a tough row to hoe and even if they were to actually conduct some jury tampering and somehow prevail, Elick has confessed to hundreds of years worth of financial crimes. He’s staying in jail. I doubt PoJim will even get a judge to agree that there are matters to appeal. Bring on the financial crimes confession sessions!
If the lawyers have after-discovered evidence of innocence while an appeal from a conviction is pending, South Carolina law requires them to file a motion WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS to suspend the appeal so they may return to the trial court and present that evidence to the trial court. If the trial court orders a new trial, it has to vacate the conviction(s) first because, under the Fifth Amendment, no one can be tried for the same offense twice. I am NOT a lawyer, only better than most by several judges’ TRANSCRIBED compliments to me.
The French phrase for that principle is “autrefois convict ou autrefois acquit.” Also, if pardoned, the defendant cannot be retried.
So, the press conference Tuesday, God willing and God speed to them, is to announce that they are filing with the Court of Appeals a motion to suspend the appeal and the evidence (affidavits, transcripts, photos, etc.) to support that motion. It is considerate of them to hold that press conference and to probably hand out copies of what is getting filed to avoid the media swarming the Clerk’s office of the Court of Appeals, even though these motions should be on the court’s website few hours or days after they are filed.
So, if all, God willing, goes well for Alex Murdaugh (“AM”), who did NOT kill his wife or his younger son, the Court of Appeals grants his motion to suspend the appeal and he goes back to Judge Clifton Newman.
AM’s defense team should take it from me, the only innocent person EVER to have avoided a wrongful conviction in Judge Clifton Newman’s court (and, thank God, I did it WITHOUT A LAWYER): do NOT put all your eggs in one basket and do NOT leave anything on the table.
First and foremost, go back to the pathologist and get her notes to herself which she testified about and which she had not disclosed.
Second, get EXPERT testimony on the relationship between time of death and stomach contents.
Third, get EVERY internet video launched during trial, specially the so-called animation videos and get an expert to testify that AM could not have fallen back like the cardboard cut-outs in those animations. Living human beings have righting reflexes and other reflexes. Then compare those videos before the judge with the pages in the clerk’s book where she writes the visit to Moselle sealed it for the jurors and with the juror’s morning-after-verdict media interviews where they said EXACTLY what was on those animation videos.
Fourth, get Sara Cappelli’s video and her testimony about the video camera she secretly put at the Moselle entrance.
Fifth and finally, for heaven’s sake, clarify that the real killer(s) did NOT just go to Moselle hoping to find some guns sitting around. The real killer(s) went with one or both of Paul’s previously-stolen guns.
God speed and God bless.
The English phrase for that principle you wasted all that text on is “double jeopardy.” Beyond that, you are living in a legal fantasy world of your own design. Your account handle is incredibly apt. Lots of luck on finding “the real killer(s).”
But the phrase “double jeopardy” alone does not explain the scope of it, meaning that it includes BOTH the once-acquitted and the once-convicted. And in the latter case, why the conviction must be vacated before a new trial starts, with the defendant standing presumed innocent again.
I provide education to the willing-to-learn. If you cannot or would not help, PLEASE do not get in the way and rudely so.
Years before the murder of Paul and Maggie, dozens of complaints were received by the SC Atty General’s office against Murdaugh’s law firm by the people who were ripped off. Both Alan Wilson and Henry McMaster informed their Assistant Attorney Generals to ignore the complaints against the Murdaughs. My son is one of the Asst Atty Gens who was repeatedly told to stand down.
Wow! And Brian ended up leaving Alan Wilson’s office altogether. Right?
who is funding the appeals?
From what I saw from their pitiful “defense” in court, Jim and Pootie Poot think they’re a hell of a lot smarter than they actually are. They are, however, expert at self-promotion and planting absolute nonsense in public. Too bad for them that it seems the State is smarter. Our best hope is that whatever $$$ the Murdaughs are coughing up for his over-priced defense fund is quickly consumed so we won’t have to hear from any of them anytime soon.
I do not think that is the problem at all.
I think the problem is that no one who knew Alex Murdaugh (“AM”) innocent of the murders, not even I, had understood ahead of time how stupidity becomes gospel if repeated often enough. For a man to up and shoot his beloved wife and younger son SOLELY to gain extra-sympathy, in addition to the sympathy he was getting from the death of his father is such a stupid idea no self-respecting, critical-thinking person could possibly have believed it.
But apparently only the lady with the dozen eggs, among the remaining 14 jurors, had that self-respect and critical thinking. We shall, God willing, soon see if other jurors had remorse and pangs of conscience.
Otherwise, if you don’t want to see AM’s dedicated defense team or AM himself on the news, just don’t look.
Prisoners do have rights.” The U.S. Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY, with Justice Alito writing the opinion, that they even have a right to grow a 1/4 inch beard if they want to UNLESS the prison officials can prove that a beard that short can be used to conceal a weapon.
I do not know if a Seikh inmate would be allowed to keep his hair; but fortunately not many Seikhs commit crimes in America. Let’s pray it stays this way.