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S.C. Attorney General Threatens Alex Murdaugh With Death Penalty
Alan Wilson: “All our legal options are on the table.”
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I bet that made old Alec’s butt pucker.
To the contrary, that would be gift to Alex and his defense team if he does not choose to represent himself.
Either case, the state is, by law, required to appoint him TWO death-penalty-qualified lawyers and to give him a higher cap on defense expense.
I think Alan Wilson is just bluffing.
Having seen some of the dualling post-opinion interviews, I must reiterate my call for the defense team to bow out and let Alex represent himself.
Sadly, as committed to his client as Mr. Harpootlian is, he seems to have learned NOTHING from the now-reversed conviction where he and Jim Griffin ASSUMED the jury will discount Creighton Waters’ crazy theories on the time of death and on motive.
Even more sadly, cases are now won or lost, not in courtrooms but in public opinion; and seeing the majority of comments on the post-reversal stories, Creighton Waters is already winning the retrial.
For those deluded by, and extolling, Creighton Waters, listen carefully to what he he said in his presser after the opinion reversing the conviction but sparing HIM overt criticism.
You will understand that Creighton Waters ABANDONED the sacred prosecutorial duty to explore exculpatory evidence with the same zeal as inculpatory evidence.
He did NOT do that.
Indeed, he BRAGGED about doing THE OPPOSITE.
He said in so many words “aggressive” and “concern for double jeopardy.”
TRANSLATION: if you, as a prosecutor, obey your duty to include exculpatory evidence and the criminal defendant gets acquitted, the State cannot appeal because of double jeopardy. But if you as a prosecutor “aggressively” include irrelevant and prejudicial evidence, and it causes a wrongful conviction, the criminal defendant can appeal and if “the system works” he gets a new trial as just happened.
Right? NO, no, no! WRONG, wrong, wrong!
“The system” trusts the prosecutors to err on the side of caution, not on the side of conviction at any price.
Lives get destroyed because of wrongful convictions, even if later reversed.
The public confidence in the legal system gets rightly shaken. And most significantly, the REAL perpetrator gets to avoid accountability (for five years now and going) or forever.
If Alan Wilson were truly non-political about this, he should have announced a reopened neutral investigation and invited all with new information to contribute.?
Ha, Alan has to be Mr Tough On Crime especially in this election year.
Nevermind that he flew to NYC to support Trump during his trial that resulted in him becoming a convicted felon who also is an adjudicated rapist, has enriched himself with a crypto grift and continues to break laws you nor I would be able to get away with.
Trying again:
So, Creighton Waters now vindictively brandishes the death penalty?
He’s in over his head.
Now that the Catholic Church has declared its opposition to the death penalty to be a core belief, Prancing Creighton Waters (“PCW”) cannot exclude jurors opposed to the death penalty if they are Catholic.
Instead of itching to execute the innocent, Alan Wilson should show some zeal in improving murder investigations.
To expiate for his Frankenstein creation, FITS should do a whole show or a whole story on the scientific failures of the investigation into Paul and Maggie’s shootings.
Here is more about ballistics which is augmented by this (link to video deleted for publishability).
It shows SLED, presumably in the early morning of 8 June 2021, supposedly collecting evidence from around and inside the house at Moselle.
Many mistakes appear in that short clip:
1. The spent bullets collected from around the exterior seven-step stoop are BASICALLY rubbed together by the evidence gatherer thus HOPELESSLY contaminating the subsequent tool-mark microscopic examination and analysis if such analysis were a science to begin with.
2. The evidence gatherers arrived without simple plastic or paper bags in which to put each bullet separately with an identification of the precise location it was found.
3. They then resort to a quick and dirty non-solution of putting a bullet in each finger of a “new glove” again without precise location identification and after the bullets had scarred each other from being basically rubbed together.
4. The exterior door handle is not dusted for fingerprints nor swabbed for DNA.
5. Once inside the house, no effort or attention is paid to any food or drink containers with residue or unconsumed content. That should be basic in any murder investigation even where the victims had been visibly shot: had they been poisoned or attempted to be poisoned before the shootings? Were they under the influence of anything they had consumed before being confronted by their shooter(s)? That may not necessarily have been the case here; but these are basics of any investigation started on a blank slate.
6. They are heard commenting to each other that the autopsies already started. They should have carefully looked for evidence of unconsummated or recently-consummated food and drink to supply to the autopsy performer.
Or course, many more mistakes appear even in that short clip.
Now that the Sixth Amendment right to a fair and impartial jury has been vindicated, it is essential to vindicate the DUE PROCESS right to a scientifically-sound investigation before charges are even brought against anyone.
Of course, many more mistakes appear even in that short clip.
Now that the Sixth Amendment right to a fair and impartial jury has been vindicated, it is essential to vindicate the DUE PROCESS right to a scientifically-sound investigation before charges are even brought against anyone.
FITS, this is all getting out of hand; and you want to consider this solution of mine:
Alex Murdaugh’s ONLY hope of DESERVED exoneration is through a bench re-trial.
There is ONE retired/active SC state circuit judge and ONE active SC state circuit judge with the intellect to cut through ALL the Prosecution’s nonsense and THE COURAGE to find Alex not guilty.
Judging by the insane comments which insist that Becky Hill was bribed by Alex to make the jury find him guilty, Alan Wilson has already won the prejudicial pre-re-trial publicity case, which is really and REALISTICALLY where cases are won or lost in this day and age.
They will NEVER find truly impartial jurors.
They will find PLENTY of jurors who fancy themselves impartial; and there is no magical way to tease self-delusion from reality.
There are SCIENTIFIC ways to do so; but they have not penetrated the law which built a wall of magic around itself and thinks some lawyers/judges can sit in a room and come out with WORDY rules which answer all the world’s questions.
And all lawyers and judges like that wall of magic around themselves, because without it, what do they actually have? Words! Only words that someone else, cloaked with a wall of magic built around themselves, wrote in prior appellate opinions and/or rules of “evidence.”
Don’t let the man Alex suffer one more year! Agree to a bench trial before a judge who would have to take a new, made-for-the-occasion oath to find Alex NOT Guilty if so led by the evidence.
I will not give the names of the two judges who are the exception which proves the rule. They know who they are; and Kittredge knows them, too. If only the sides would agree to a bench re-trial and Kittredge would have the courage and wisdom to select the right judge, this turmoil should be over and avoided.