SLED Fires Back At Attorney For ‘Murdaugh Murders’ Jurors

So, you insist you have an open mic but you do not let my comment through? Here it is again:
I often said, and this Good Friday is a good time to repeat it, that if sinners cannot repent then Jesus Christ would have been crucified for no reason.
Curiously, and the order of mentioning it is of no importance, Republicans are enthusiastic about J.D. Vance’s mother maintaining sobriety for ten years now after an almost life-long battle with addiction marked by many remissions and reversions. Democrats are enthusiastic about Hunter Biden maintaining sobriety after an equivalent life-long battle with addiction with its similar share of remissions and reversions.
But no one wants to believe that Richard Alexandre Murdaugh (“RAM”) was addicted (although I believe that most of the pills he was sold were most likely Grade-A placebos of he would have died), has been sober since the summer of 2021, has-thank God-maintained that sobriety for four years now, AND deserves a second chance at life, truth, AND grand-father-hood.
Herd-mentality RAM hating is an industry fed by those who profited financially from RAM’s deserved or undeserved downfall; but, again proper to be reminded on this Good Friday, that is UNCHRISTIAN.
Also notice that, again in no special order of importance, that Former Democrat Senator and Presidential Candidate John Edwards had a daughter out of wedlock, which daughter he denied publicly and got hush money to her mother until DNA forced him to admit the truth, at which time he protested that he loves that daughter whom he once denied.
Much earlier, Former (and Late) Republican Senator and Presidential Candidate Strom Thurmond had a bi-racial out of wedlock (and possibly out of the rape of her then teen-age mother) to whom Thurmond sent hush money with his nephew, a Thurmond-appointed bankruptcy judge. Thurmond never publicly acknowledged Essie-Mae Washington or claimed that he loved her. He never even met his own flesh and blood: his four grandchildren by Essie-Mae. Only after Thurmond’s death did the truth come out.
On this Good Friday, let us commit to reject the hypocrisy of Judas, who, before selling Jesus Christ out for 30 pieces of silver, complained about the repentant sinner who anointed Jesus Christ.
Let us not leave a man who may be innocent of murders rot in prison and let us remember two of the multitude of important things Jesus said: (1) Let him who is without sin cast the first stone; and (2) I was a prisoner and you did not visit me.
Happy Easter or Passover to those who celebrate either.

Katie, friendship has no place and no value among South Carolina’s lawyers.
Joe McCulloch was, at the time of Richard Alexander Murdaugh’s (“RAM”) January-March 2023 two-murder trial SUING RAM on behalf of at least one survivor of the 2019 boat crash. So, Mr. McCulloch observed that trial to protect the interests of his own client, NOT out of friendship for RAM or for Mr. Harpootlian.
As an aside, the name Harpootlian should be pronounced with respect, partly for the South Carolina lawyer who bears it, but mainly for the City of Kharpoot (Armenian pronunciation) which witnessed a genocide against Armenians no less savage than that later witnessed against Jewish people in Poland and Germany.
Like Former SC Chief Justice Pleicones’ Greek Orthodox Christian grandparents, Mr. Harptoolian’s Armenian Orthodox Christian grandparents fled to America from the various oppressions of the early 20th Century Ottoman Empire.
The name Harpootlian should be no more mocked than if his name were Auschwitzer. We should respect all people’s sufferings.