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‘It Might Have Made A Difference’: Alex Murdaugh’s Attorney Reacts To Hidden Texts
Do recently unearthed messages provide convicted killer’s attorneys with another path to a new trial?
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More bovine excreta from the king of bovine excreta Pooty Poot Harpootlian. “Elik” knew of the texts; he sent or received them.
Since you commented on Jenn Wood’s follow-up to that story and I replied to you there, I paste my reply here too:
I don’t know if you’ll be a gentleman or will vulgarly insult me just because you can as almost everyone else does; but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and invite you to think about it after reading my comment below which shows there is nothing “staggering” about paying a housekeeper/caregiver circa $10/hour which, over 11 years, add up to $278K.
First and foremost, this blue raincoat/tarp story makes no sense whatsoever.
If Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) wanted to dispose of the alleged murder weapons, why this grand-production number? (1) Conceal the weapons somewhere handy immediately after the murders; (2) go back a whole week later and pull them from wherever they were concealed and remained undiscovered; (3) wrap them in something, out of all colors, obvious blue; (4) take them to Almeda where at least two people could see them; (5) leave the wrapping fabric in an unlocked wardrobe in Almeda; (6) take the unwrapped weapons on a long journey to their final resting place.
How stupid is that? Specially if RAM had been planning those murders for a long time?
Why not just dispose of them the night of the murders? No wrapping, no intermediate steps, no anything.
Second, Barbara Mixson’s being an occasional supplier of pills to RAM does not make her an accomplice to the murders or to supposed concealment of the murder weapons. I totally buy her loving RAM as if he were one of her own sons; and I totally buy her being an occasional enabler of one whom she had seen unable to kick the habit. No different from a kid going to the store to buy cigarettes for his mother because she sent him there even though he wishes his mother would quit smoking. Sad but classic dynamics.
Third, and I challenge you to prove me wrong: if RAM were the killer, why return from Almeda that night at all? RAM would have slept that night in his father’s empty bed (RAM’s father was in hospital that night; and Maggie expected RAM to go to Almeda to sleep there and so texted her sister) and left the bodies of Paul and Maggie to be discovered in the morning by one of the Moselle workers.
Coming from three generations of prosecutors, RAM undoubtedly knew that whoever discovers the bodies becomes automatically the prime suspect.
There is also an interesting line in Malicious Mandy Matney’s book: an unnamed woman jumped off a bridge in that vicinity the night of the murders.
I think SLED’s belated dive-search is related to that woman and has nothing to do with any real belief that RAM dumped the murder weapons in the river.
Again, prove me wrong if you can; but please do it politely.
This is not good news. Whether guilty or innocent, everyone deserves a fair trial. When the desire to win overtakes the intent to be fair, confidence is lost.
Alex knew about the texts. If they had been important they would have used them. Poot just trying to be the victim again
Isn’t there a political thing getting ready to happen with the attorney general ( Mr Wilson ) ? This could have a detrimental outcome for him. Always felt there was something missing in this case. Just never believed he killed his wife & son. Not saying he’s a good man by no means , but killing his wife & son ? Just never felt right. I always said there was more to this than anyone of us new. Hope there is a new trial. Don’t believe we had heard all the story just yet. PS:: Keep your eyes on Allen Wilson , he’s got a play in this also !!!!
What it actually shows is that Wilson would run the governors office like he runs the AGs office, in the shadows hiding things from public scrutiny
Yes this trial has big consequences for me Wilson. Always felt there was something missing from this trial. Never felt the accused was a good man but to kill his wife & son for money , just never felt right to me. I always believed there was just something missing. Just saying.
Oh. Please. The fact this will now be a more “National Trial” means a bunch of people who have not followed it since the beginning or through all the drugs and other “mysterious” deaths will suddenly get a big opinion. You think there was unfairness in regards to the first trial? Wait until national pressure is applied. There is a multitude of mysterious deaths surrounding this man and his family. When will the dead get their “fair trial”?
If Mae Myers is referring to Gloria Satterfield and Stephen Smith, there is NOTHING “mysterious” about either death.
Gloria Satterfield was a chronic poorly-managed diabetic with TERMINAL renal failure and likely diabetic neuropathy. She has hit another car one day, fell at Moselle the day that followed and died IN HOSPITAL three weeks later of MEDICALLY-DIAGNOSED myocardial infarction due to coronary artery disease.
Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) could NOT possibly have caused the woman’s diabetes or the laws of biology which teach the consequences of diabetes.
Nor is anything “mysterious” about Stephen Smith’s death.
That 19-year old was failing his nursing school classes, needing money for gasoline and school scrubs, and meeting men online and in nude male dance clubs. AND he was NOT living with his divorced mother who knew very little about her son. Is it any wonder that such troubled teenager INTENTIONALLY walked into on-coming traffic on a country road?
And there is A CONNECTION between these two non-mysterious deaths and the deaths of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh. That connection is Malicious Mandy Matney (“MMM”), a faux Catholic no less promiscuous than Stephen Smith and a fake self-important journalist. After having conspired against her bosses in low-country newspapers only to have her conspiracies turned against her, she hit gold in creating and stoking media hype demonizing Paul Murdaugh and his parents.
I regret to be giving publicity to MMM’s book “Blood on Their Hands”; but in it she unabashedly details how SHE, and she alone, created a connection between Stephen Smith’s, Mallory Beach’s, and Gloria Satterfield’s deaths, and blamed RAM for all three deaths.
And Sanctimonious Sandy Smith (“SSS”) said it on at least one national show: “Someone else had to die for Stephen’s case to be reopened.” SSS had her wish and two more people (Paul and Maggie) were killed, probably upon MMM’s orchestration, and Stephen’s case got reopened. But the second autopsy, and even Ken Kinsey, PhD, confirmed what the first autopsy had found: Stephen Smith died WHERE HIS BODY WAS FOUND of a vehicle versus pedestrian collision. Only the idiot supposed law-enforcement officer (“LEO”) Thomas Moore could not understand or accept that and went harassing Dr. Erin Presnell, who did the first autopsy, to change her diagnosis, which (beyond proving Thomas Moore’s incompetence as a LEO) COULD BE attempted obstruction of justice.
I really hope FITS lets this comment of mine through or goes to coercive-control himself. You see, he always exposes his own hypocrisy: he pretends to have an open mic but ignores my comments because his patrons do not like me. He pretends to be a libertarian but gives plenty of oxygen to a STUPID proposed “coercive control” law which would make it a CRIME for a man to tell his own wife, in the privacy of his own home, that she should be more frugal.
Wonders never cease.
Since this story keeps trending, and since FITS was (in a moment of integrity) willing to let my previous comment through, I pray FITS lets this comment of mine (and the few that shall, God willing, follow) and I hope that Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) and now-U.S.-Circuit-Judge J. Michelle Childs get to read them AS PARENTS and as lawyers with ethical duties.
At the threshold, I gave EBEB his alliterative title BEFORE I read his book, “Anything but Bland,” and, without false humility, congratulated myself on my prescience and on my being an excellent judge of character.
You see, EBEB built his career on a big lie which in his book he calls “a little white lie.” But the only “white” about it is that it was uttered by a white man who plays the Jewish card for convenience.
There is no more GENUINE Judaism in EBEB than there is music in Creighton Walters hysterics with the guitar: no music, only loudness.
And there is no Judaism in EBEB, not even his last name, which was changed from Baldstein to Bland to CONCEAL the Jewish identity he deploys as a sword and a shield.
And to cut off at the threshold any FALSE accusations of anti-semitism, I am a Coptic Christian who PERSONALLY suffered, as did my people throughout centuries from discrimination and persecution by groups who even call it “haram” (a sin forbidden by Islam) to wish a Coptic Christian a Happy Nativity Day (our Christmas, and the Russian and Armenian Orthodox Christmases are on 7 January, not 25 December) OR to offer condolences to a bereaved Coptic Christian upon a death of any of his/her family members.
And I am a fervent supporter of Egypt’s peace with Israel. My only regret is that, over 45 years, it proved to be a VERY COLD peace.
But being a supporter of peace is NOT obligatory admiration of Anwar Sadat, who was a triple agent between the Moslem Brotherhood, King Farouk’s Palace, and Nasser’s 1952 coup d’etat.
Jehan Sadat, whom USC’s Holderman hired to launder Saudi money to her (more on that later), even wrote in her memoire that, as a newly-wed to the then-penniless Anwar Sadat, she got terrified and lowered her beautiful head when Farouk unexpectedly entered the restaurant where Anwar had taken her. Jehan was terrified Farouk would see her, covet her and order her away from her husband who was then particularly vulnerable to Farouk, who had just pardoned Sadat’s terrorism charge and re-instated him into the army. Think about that. Sadat was a man unwilling to resist Egypt’s version of le droit du seigneur.
Jehan herself has an aunt who indoctrinated her to donate her lunch money to the Moslem Brotherhood.
Like putting this excerpt from a published book and my putting it in context?
Then read carefully as a I return to EBEB’s book.
EBEB flaunts himself as “a poor scrawny Jewish kid” who grew some “courage” to confront Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) in court.
EBEB was never “poor” as in impecunious. His paternal grandfather was a dentist, his maternal and paternal uncles were VERY lucratively employed, and his own father was admitted to law school but dropped out for reasons (possibly alcoholism) not given in EBEB’s book.
Nor was EBEB ever “scrawny,” starved or scared. He is 5’9″, which is slightly above average for the American male of his generation. All it is is the phenomenon known in Pediatrics that, in boys’ “second spurt of growth,” the increase is height FAR outpaces the increase in weight; so, it is NORMAL for adolescent males to APPEAR thin.
Nor was EBEB ever PHYSICALLY bullied into submission or humiliation. To the contrary, he formed a school gang which bullied other students. And yet, as a full grown man and lawyer, EBEB brags about punching in the face a man who used to be a junior school mate just as revenge.
Apart from that being a battery crime which EBEB should have self-reported as a lawyer, if the story is true, EBEB is a man with never-requited grudges.
What does that have to do with RAM’s recently-revealed texts and/or with EBEB’s and Will Folks’ children?
Of course, RAM did NOT shoot Paul or Maggie. The idea that Paul and Maggie died when the batteries on their cell phones did is PURELY an EBEB invention which he obsessively pushed on the State of South Carolina for the SOLE satisfaction of EBEB seeing dupes buy and parrot what EBEB calls “little white lies,” which are in reality huge demonic lies.
The children need to learn, which EBEB will never teach his own son because that would be the son becoming better than the father, that TRUE strength is NOT bullying others into silence about your own wrong-doing. TRUE strength is confessing your sins IN THEIR TRUE MAGNITUDE and going to sin no more.
To be continued with more objective details, God so willing and FITS permitting.
Thank God, Will Folks’ awakened integrity let him let my previous comment through.
So, here is to love, faith, AND hope:
To recap here what I previously explained on FITSNews and elsewhere: (1) Paul and Maggie did NOT die as early as 8:49 pm on 7 June 2021 because the food is their stomachs, AS SEEN and MEASURED by the pathologist who performed the autopsies, was TOO LITTLE and TOO DIGESTED for the death to have occurred only 22 minutes after Paul and Maggie’s KNOWN, relatively large and fatty, last meal. (2) Paul did not send the video of Cash’s tail, NOT because Paul was shot by RAM immediately after making that video, BUT BECAUSE that video shows NOTHING WRONG with Cash’s tail. Paul’s having previously imagined, and reported to Rogan Gibson, that there was “a pone” on Cash’s tail was AN OPTICAL ILLUSION which was dispelled by Paul sleeving Cash’s tail though Paul’s palm then looking into that palm and finding nothing in it OR ON THE TAIL. Whatever “pone” Paul thought he saw earlier must have been an insect of a piece of caked mud that fell off with Cash’s furious wagging of its own tail. Tail wagging is NATURE’s way of ridding dogs of dirt and/or parasites. So, no need to bother the friend of a friend who is a veterinarian. (3) RAM was wearing that while T-shirt into the kennels and later into his mother’s home. The spatter on it was NOT human blood but avian blood from the chicken RAM had extracted from the jaws of Bubba the dog. (4) If Paul and/or Maggie were REALLY shot with guns which once belonged to the Murdaughs, they must have been Paul’s very expensive once-established stolen guns which were never recovered but of which the first one only was replaced. So, on 7 June 2021, someone had possession of at least two guns stolen from Paul Murdaugh. (5) The REAL shooters are likely females with training in shooting game animals but not humans because, due to muscle memory, they aimed for the height of a game animal head, not a human head. AND (6) The idea of RAM shooting his beloved wife and younger son to gain sympathy is a total EBEB invention from which he takes great CONTINUING sinful pleasure.
As a third-year law student in the then-and-now middling USC law school, EBEB’s self-importance and rabid ambition demanded employment in the more prestigious and lucrative Philadelphia, Pa, market which was out of USC’s circle of connections.
So, EBEB helped himself into calling Philadelphia, Pa, law firms and FALSELY pretending he ALREADY had scheduled interviews with competing Philadelphia, Pa, law firms. Then he would AGAIN FALSELY pretend to one firm that a competitor firm had offered him a job at a huge salary.
Parenthetically, I wondered how good were those supposedly elite law firms if they did not know to check whether their competitors had REALLY offered interviews and later well-paid jobs to a middling graduate of a middling southern law school.
Be that as it may, EBEB did get a job with a Philadelphia law firm but in their Florida branch, which soon closed.
So, EBEB returned to Philly where he spent three years jumping from on law firm to another without actually doing the work that would have qualified him for promotion from associate to partner.
So EBEB returns to South Carolina where he gets his WASP father-in-law to open a law office for EBEB and a partner.
For a while EBEB does well by destroying the competitors of one wealthy client; but soon that wealthy client himself goes into bankruptcy or something; and EBEB was, in his own words, “staring into the abyss.”
That is when EBEB gets the idea of destroying other lawyers for a living.
Full disclosure: I once thought EBEB a hero for standing up to Nexsen-Pruett. Truth is: each is worse than the other.
To be further continued, God so willing and FITS permitting.
Back to the texts but with the 7 June 2021 cell phone records as printed by FITSNews about a year ago and presented to the jury. I took the pain of color coding them and would ask Jenn Wood or Will Folks to make it possible for me to post the color-coded version.
Till then, here are my conclusions on which you have to trust me until you see my color-coded version or you color-code them for yourselves.
(1) About 20-30 entries are clearly designated as NOT in Rudolfsky’s downloaded data. Why?
(2) There is no doubt about the time of Maggie’s arrival to Moselle OR the time of the dinner> 8:00 – 8:30 pm. Her phone LOCKED during that time.
(3) Maggie’s cell phone batteries were borderline because she (apparently inadvertently) did NOT hook her cell phone to her car charger on the drives from and back to Moselle.
(4) The conclusion is the phone locks when the battery is low, or when the owner does not want to be disturbed (as when having dinner), not when the owner dies.
We also need to know from the autopsy report what Maggie was wearing when she was killed. Did her garments have pockets large enough for her cell phone?
It is more plausible that, with so many dogs to let out then back in, Maggie needed both her hands free and, if not wearing pockets, laid her cell phone on the side-by-side or her bike’s basket or wherever THE REAL KILLERS found it and had to deprive Maggie of it lest she call for help or lest the phone record what really happened.
If Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) were the killer, he would not have, the next morning given SLED information and assistance on finding Maggie’s phone.
Also, if RAM were the killer, he would have spent the night at his mother’s home and left one of the Moselle hands to find the bodies in the morning and be the prime suspect.
I have previously detailed all the above here and elsewhere.
What is new to me is my fuller understanding of Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland’s (“EBEB”) personality and why and how he is obsessed, addicted even, with making others believe his fabrications. That is what makes EBEB happy and what started his career: fabrications (of interviews and job offers) which he calls “little white lies” and what continues his success. He wants to punch in the face a junior high classmate who was then taller and more muscular than EBEB. And now, he wants to literally kill RAM of broken-heartedness because RAM was once a more successful and higher-earning personal injury lawyer than EBEB.
EBEB may also have the Laius complex, so afraid that Oedipus will kill Laius and marry Jocasta that EBEB admits to BASICALLY verbally abusing his only son and never letting him win in golf.
Good parents, like caring fledging a brood, are patient with their young ones, laugh at the little ones’ jokes which are not funny to adults, pretend not to see them at peek-a-boo, pretend to fall for their facile April fool’s real “little white lies,” etc. But not EBEB. He is addicted to making people think what he tells them to think, even if the price is getting an innocent man convicted of two murders and of getting one black lawyer after another suspended and disbarred.
I pray that EBEB repents. But whether he does or not, YOU don’t let him mislead you.
You shall, God willing and FITS permitting, see the relevance of my thoughts to recent and near-future-projected events.
When SC Associate Justice John Cannon Few was elected, he reportedly was asked if his highest ambition was now achieved; and he reportedly responded that his highest ambition was and is to be a good father to his children. The Justice’s children are all grown now and live outside South Carolina; but I assume the Justice’s highest ambition is to be a good grandfather to his grandchildren.
Have you ever heard a lawyer say (s)he is NOT a good lawyer?
Hatchet-for-hire Heather Weiss put a black gossamer shawl on her shoulders and boasted about herself and her husband being “good Jewish parents” for giving her son a lavish after-bar-mitzvah party when that son had BASICALLY cheated on his Bar-Mitzvah exam because he did not study enough Hebrew to read his assigned Torah passage and had to rely on the teacher reading it for him just a piano teachers help their talentless students cheat on their recitals to satisfy their well-paying parents.
In his “meltdown,” a half-naked Mullins McLeod challenges Alan Wilson to reveal who his “biological father” is.
I know nothing of Alan Wilson’s biological father, but I know that his adoptive father, ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE wrote to USC, which fired me TWICE for having written that some gay men take female hormones to achieve a feminine appearance (which proved me observant and prescient with all those trans people clamoring for gender-changing interventions which they mis-label “gender-affirming care”) that Joe Wilson, then only a state-senator, had seen my research on healthcare, had been impressed with it, and was surprised to read in the media that USC had fired me twice DESPITE an academic committee having UNANIMOUSLY ruled there was no performance reason to fire me.
USC ignored Joe Wilson’s letter; and I learned about it only in discovery in my lawsuit against USC, a suit Joe Anderson (whose name Mullins McLeod yelled in his “meltdown” dismissed. But more on that later.
You see: USC was DEI long before DEI was declaimed. Like everything else in South Carolina, it is about the clans; and the ruling clan at USC was the Holderman clan.
Later, as a Congressman, Joe Wilson, apparently again ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, introduced a private relief bill to enable Dhesh Tilani, an orphaned Indian student, to continue his legal presence in the U.S.
As a father, according to his own book “Anything but Bland,” Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland (“EBEB”) gave his only known son a third-hand Rolex watch for his Bar-Mitzvah. EBEB had bought that watch at half-price from a distressed colleague early in EBEB’s marriage (which makes it a second-hand watch), apparently wore it for 10-15 years till his son’s Bar Mitzvah, which makes the Rolex by then a third-hand watch.
I do not know if EBEB’s son also cheated on his Bar Mitzvah exam; but I do know that EBEB cheats on his daughter’s achievements and claims she is already “a plastic surgeon” when the poor Dr. Sidney Bland is only a third-year surgery resident in Alabama and only “considering” plastic surgery as a sub-specialty. I am ONLY GUESSING that the obsessive EBEB is forcing plastic surgery on his daughter because EBEB is grateful that a plastic surgeon had once (and off the books) removed from EBEB’s skin some tattoos a younger EBEB had acquired “to look cool” but later found to be a problem for his participation in elite law firms’ pool parties.
I wish the obsessive EBEB would let his only son win in golf once in a while and let EBEB’s only daughter choose the details of her own career without EBEB’s unrequited obsessions interfering.
What I got for my first communion, the Catholic equivalent to the Jewish Bat Mitzvah, is to go to church in my regular white summer uniform and give the price of what would have been a mini-wedding dress (the traditional first communion dress) to the poor who had no dresses at all. With that I received the gifts of learning the it is the inner spiritual experience, not the attire, which matters in a Holy Sacrament and of learning that it is better to give than to receive.
So, knowing based on OBJECTIVE medical evidence that Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) did NOT kill Paul or Maggie and does NOT KNOW who did, and knowing that children and grandchildren learn from what we show them, not what we tell them, I wish Alan Wilson, John Few, Joe Anderson, Heather Weiss, and EBEB, among others, would show their children and grandchildren that true greatness is not in successfully concealing the wrong one did but in admitting them and making amends to the wronged ones while the wronged ones are still alive.
In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, Jesus Christ explained that, after Lazarus died, hungry and untreated of his skin lesions, it was too late for the rich man to get a do-over.
Neither I nor RAM may be long for this world. Do us justice and teach your children and grandchildren what true greatness is.
So no one thinks I picked only on female journalists or fake journalists, here are my comments on Andy Fancher’s report on FITSNews’ Week in Review of Saturday, 6 September 2025:
@marieassaad-faltas1299:
At 3:12 and after, Andy, it is “Dayne,” NOT “Dwayne” Phillips. I even double-checked on the SC lawyers directory. That is homework the journalist, not the reader, should have done. Next time, do your homework before mispronouncing lawyers’ names. It affects your credibility.
At 5:30, Andy, Andy, Andy, there is no “of course” about it. Although it is a pet peeve for South Carolina’s STATE courts, hybrid representation is allowed in BOTH civil and criminal cases in FEDERAL courts at the judge’s guided discretion.
Several published cases show a federal judge allowing hybrid representation; others show a federal judge denying it. But it would have been abuse of discretion for a federal judge to deny hybrid representation SOLELY BECAUSE the judge thought it unusual or knew that Andy Fancher would be surprised by it.
I believe Judge Currie knows better and is aware of the U.S. Supreme Court case: McKaskle v. Wiggins, 465 US 168, 104 S. Ct. 944, 79 L. Ed. 2d 122 (1984).
At 13:44, No, Andy, no, no, no. Do your homework. There are EXCELLENT statistics on criminal defendants’ self-representation in federal courts.
The leader is Professor Erica Hashimoto, earlier of the University of Georgia School of Law and now (or the last I knew) of Georgetown Law School.
Read Indiana v. Edwards, 554 U.S. 164 (2008). It cites Professor Hashimoto’s study and statistics.
And SURPRISE! Pro se criminal defendants in federal courts have a slightly higher ACQUITTAL RATE than represented ones. So, R.J. May’s decision is statistics-based.
And, of course, in South Carolina, there is the indelible story of the great Dr. Marie Faltas, who, thank God, did for herself WITHOUT A LAWYER, and in Judge Clifton Newman’s court no less, what Messers. Harpootlian, Griffin, and Barber, COMBINED could not do for Alex Murdaugh: prevent a jury from coming back with a wrongful conviction.
Andy Fancher, are you a journalist reporting true facts? Or are you a fiction writer pandering for lawyers to advertise on FITSNews?
Hopefully, YouTube does not delete my comments there and Will Folks lets them through here.
Perhaps a good addition to my showing the statistically-proven FACT that pro se criminal defendants (at least in federal courts) have a BETTER ACQUITTAL rate than represented ones is my showing how stupid the law, the legal rules of legal evidence, and lawyers and most judges really are.
They claim they are trained to think critically and go to law school to learn to think like a lawyer.
In fact, they go to law school to learn to not think at all but to copy by rote what someone else wrote or said earlier; and they learn the cowardice of not challenging judges but pandering to them.
Take for example the hand-of-one-is-the-hand-of-all rule whereby the unwitting driver of the get-away car might get the death penalty while the actual shooter of the victim gets 30 years.
Does that rule deter crime or conspiracies to commit crimes? Not at all. It might even promote them by giving the mastermind of a crime conspiracy the hope of pinning the major blame on the most gullible member of the conspiracy.
So what does hand-of-one do? It ONLY allows LAZY investigators and prosecutors to not busy their smug little heads with apportioning culpability to mete out punishment proportionate to the role in the crime. Just put them all in a blender and pour any amounts of the blend into a number of cups equal to the number of criminal defendants.
Take another rule: a prior conviction evidencing dishonesty is allowed against a witness for ten years.
So, a dishonest person remains dishonest until the crime’s tenth birthday but, as soon as the clock strikes midnight on that day, the witness magically becomes an honest person.
Another example is the Goff factors on which SC Associate Justice James has at least twice written that one trial judge could decide to admit evidence and another trial judge looking at IDENTICAL FACTS could decide to exclude; and the SC Supreme Court would have to affirm each trial judge due to limited scope of appellate review.
That is not a reliable scale of justice on which the public can rely. That is a yo-yo, up one minute down the other.
So, the allegoric Lady Justice should be depicted, not blind-folded and holding a scale, but smirking and wielding a yo-yo.
What does this have to do with this story?
I am mid-way through Murdaugh’s reply brief for which Jenn Wood was waiting as if on fire.
Both Dick and Jim are prior prosecutors; and Phil Barber is a prior federal law clerk. None of them did anything to make criminal trials more scientific. To the contrary, Jim Griffin had “pioneered” and effected the inclusion of a polygraph in plea agreements even though polygraphs do NOT detect anything. That came back to bite Griffin’s client, Alex Murdaugh, in the sentencing for his federal crimes.
All this rigmarole, expensive public trials, and heartache for falsely-convicted, would have been avoided if, instead of developing, studying, and worshipping useless and stupid rules, the erstwhile prosecutors had developed SCIENTIFIC checklists to be adhered to before probable cause may even be claimed.
ALL the Murdaugh murders trial story would NOT EVEN HAVE BEGUN if real rules for pinpointing the time of death were in place and there had been a precedent or a law saying: if police did not do all the possible measurements to narrow the time of death, the solicitor cannot prosecute.
No wonder Dick, Jim and Phil, did not even cite my observations about the REAL time of death being much later than what the State claims it to be. They would rather lose their case than give credit to the great Dr. Marie Faltas.
What? Give credit to a doctor who, thank God, represented herself and got herself acquitted? No. no, no, no. Then everyone would want to represent themselves; and how will lawyers and law school professors (full-time and visiting adjunct judges) make a lavish living?
NO, no, no. We cannot, come what may, give such doctor any respect. In fact, we should act as if she did not exist. But if she happens to materialize in any circumstance, we should treat her like a leper, and a demented one at that.
You see: Jesus Christ never attacked Judaism. He decried the Pharisees who had perverted the laws of God for the Pharisees’ own profit and glory.
No one resembles Pharisees more than common-law-jurisdiction lawyers and judges and Salafi Sheikhs.
And both Anglo-American lawyers and Salafi Sheikhs hate Coptic Christians to no end.
Objective proof: SC’s Supreme Court unabashedly wrote in a published opinion that the great Dr. Marie Faltas should be denied her basic human right to speak and advocate for herself because, horror of horrors, she had asked that court (which drowns itself in ceremonial gestures) to make a symbolic gesture (such as lowering the flag) in sympathy and solidarity with the victims of the 2013-2017 spade of church bombings and church burnings in Egypt.
No Justice who signed that opinion should be re-elected or promoted.
And, if FITS does not let this comment through, he should go coercive-control himself.
God willing and FITS permitting, I post here, too, what I posted on my other two free monthly FITSNews article because I want Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) to promise God, Buster and me, that if and when, God willing, I help RAM find and prove the real killers of Paul and Maggie, RAM and Buster will forgive those killers.
That does NOT mean Buster should give up his defamation lawsuits. To the contrary, as explained below, the forgiver has a moral duty to FIRST “as a condition precedent” bring the to-be-forgiven to contrition, repentance and restitution.
The time it takes for any of the candidates, or at least one of their less robotic campaign staffers if they have any, to read this long post is much shorter than the introduction to a one-room campaign stop; but it could be the salvation of that campaign as both the whole Land of Egypt and the whole family of Israel were saved from famine because a wise and inspired Pharaoh plucked a wrongly-incarcerated Joseph out of prison, listened to his ideas, and made him second in command over the entire land of Egypt.
Alan Wilson knows me, at least by sight and reputation but his dad was indelibly impressed with my work as early as 1992; and it is time for him to remember me 33 years too later (but better than never) as Pharaoh’s butler remembered him three years late.
Pamela Evette’s predecessor, Henry McMaster, also knows me by sight and reputation although he sometimes listen to his loud-mouthed idiotic in-law Orin Briggs.
Nancy Mace may or may not remember me from when she was co-founder of a then-budding FITSNews.
But I offer myself to all candidates for South Carolina’s governorship and ask each to read for him/herself my 1992 “Cycle Breaker” welfare and medical care reform plan, which had then impressed Congressman Floyd Spence, Governor Carol Campbell, and then-State-Senator Joe Wilson, among others. My “Cycle Breaker” was killed by the then-and-still-ruling DEI clan at USC just as Joseph’s brothers had conspired to kill him so his dreams would die with him.
I want those candidates to let me explain to them how my plan is radically different from anything proposed before or since and how it is still possible and necessary today. I want those candidates to make it a race on who understands my ideas and runs with them fastest, not an auction on who hates foreigners most.
You see: unlike arrogant WASPs and Salafis (who have much more in common with each other than either would ever admit) I do not view the Old Testament as a Hebrew invention or a series of fables and superstitions. Rather, it is all perfectly consistent with modern knowledge of Biology and Ecology. Each of Pharaoh in his royal bed and Joseph on his prison hard floor worried about crop failures and/or cycles of draughts and deluges. And by accepting each other as equal humans, they helped each other invent grain storage which staved off the famine.
And they did not accomplish that by lazy lawyerly words but by energetic scientific works.
Joseph’s first use of his sudden awesome powers was to “go out to survey the Land of Egypt.” That is the first rule of Science: do NOT arm-chair speculate but OBSERVE and MEASURE.
I offer my God-given wonder of an intellect equally to all the candidates though, as a Catholic-educated convert to Christian Orthodoxy, my natural preference is for the one-husband-for-life woman. But I ask the (twice?) divorced woman among the candidates to not make conservatism an auction of who hates foreigners most.
I also fear Alan Wilson’s loyalty to his staff will make him put Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (Weiss) ahead of his county.
Yet, I hope Hatchet-for-Hire Heather remembers and acknowledges that, after I had, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, and in Judge Clifton Newman’s court no less, thwarted Hatchet-for-Hire Heather’s evil scheme to imprison me for 36 years (yes, thirty-six) on criminal charges she more than others KNEW to be FALSE, and we were, after 11:30 pm on Friday, 26 February 2010, retrieving our respective exhibits from the court reporter (there can be appeal where there was no conviction), I asked Hatchet-for-Hire Heather where do the court exhibits go. She gruffly responded “Do not talk to me.” I instinctively replied, “I will talk to you and I will love you.”
I did then love her as my enemy and still do.
But I do not YET forgive her.
In my theology, contrition of the wrong-doer is “a condition precedent” to forgiveness.
Nor, again in my theology, is the victim of the wrong-doer allowed to passively await the wrong-doer’s contrition. We victims are required, indeed that (still in my theology) is the promise we make to God in the Lord’s prayer, to bring the wrong-doer into contrition so we may forgive him/her.
And contrition is NOT mere words. It is actions. It is Zacchaeus’ refund of fourfold that of which he cheated others. It is the “making amends” of the 12-step program. It is the restitution and punitive damages of civil law.
I was impressed by Mrs. Erica Kirk’s reported public forgiveness of her husband’s assassin (I hope that means opposing the death penalty for ALL offenders, including that assassin) and public gratitude to the Hindu Usha Chilukuri Vance’s comforting Mrs. Kirk after the tragedy.
Contemporaneously, the FaceBook post of the truly sweet, smart and studious, Myra Catherine Crosby (aka “Juror 785” and “the egg juror”) noted that yesterday was 2025’s Universal Wives’ Day.
Coptic Orthodox Christians’ wedding invitations in my youth (before they regrettably moved from the spirituality of a Holy Sacrament into the worldliness of a banquet) usually opened by quoting Proverbs 31:10, the implication being the bridegroom was blessed to find a wife of noble character.
Parenthetically, that ideal Old Testament wife is a business woman like Pamela and physically muscular like Nancy.
But I quote Proverbs 31:10-31 (New International Version) and ask the readers to consider that the Bible, in BOTH testaments, makes wisdom (proverbs 31:26) and kindness to the needy/stranger (Proverbs 31:10) basic practices of the believer:
10 A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
11 Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
12 She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
15 She gets up while it is still night; she provides food for her family and portions for her female servants.
16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
17 She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
18 She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.
19 In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
20 She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.
21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
22 She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
23 Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
29 “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
31 Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
I want Mrs. Kirk to go and PERSONALLY minister to her husband’s assassin as Pope John Paul II (Subito!) went and ministered to his attempted assassin.
And I want to Hatchet-for-Hire Heather to make amends to me by PUBLICLY disavowing her schemes to discredit me and MY intellect, an intellect which dazzled jurists to the point of stating ON TRANSCRIBED RECORDS how “amazed” they are at how “better than most lawyers” I am. I want Hatchet-for-Hire Heather to ACTIVELY campaign for my ideas of making crime investigations more scientific AT THE THRESHOLD and changing prison-pushing sentencing into preventive sentencing.
Thank God, I lived 33 years after the DEI clan at USC tried to kill me and my “Cycle Breaker” dreams, and lived another day after chest tightness to write this post.
God bless the patient and the wise.
Thank God, I lived to write the foregoing; and God’s grace is perfected in weakness, for a new thorn in flesh is the blurriness of my eyes after ever-shortening reading/writing times.
So, typos occur.
Pharaoh’s butler remembered Joseph three years late. The pronoun “him” has no antecedent in my sentence above.
And “no” is inadvertently missing in a parenthetical sentence above. The correct statement is “(there can be NO appeal where there was no conviction).”
Please excuse my typos and let me know if there are others I am still missing.
Thanks and God bless.
I need to paste here my comment on how Jenn Wood just sabotaged her own chances of rehabilitating her own credibility in my eyes, specially, that, in a FITSNews Week-in-Review on YouTube, she was able to ALMOST correctly calculate that the 12% or so of the public who CONSISTENTLY vote Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) not guilty of what was done to Paul and Maggie on 7 June 2021, “that’s one juror.”
Actually, that’s one juror and a half, which approximates to two jurors. And indeed, Juror 785 (“the egg juror”) is now 100% not guilty; and Juror Z is half in, half out.
So, this is my comment on Jenn Wood’s today’s travesty, where she cannot do arithmetic I did when I was five or six:
Jenn Wood, just when I was trying to respect you and take you “out of the circle” of Richard Alex Murdaugh’s (“RAM”) false accusers, which circle you entered by befriending a willing adult prostitute (somebody “Edwards”?) and claiming she was “sex-trafficked”), you do this.
You entered, and stayed in, RAM’s false accusers circle (after you dredged up that irrelevant prostitute and realized even the Prosecution found her fabrications not credible) by dredging up a “family annihilator” theory and literally giggling that “it fit [RAM] to a T.” Your STUPID basis for that supposed “fit to a T” is some study that claimed that 30% of family annihilators have financial problems.
If your husband is a rocket scientist, he should teach you BASIC arithmetic.
If he does not, I hereby try to.
Back then, I pointed out (but you ignored me) that even if your statistic were true, it means that 70%, THE CLEAR MAJORITY of “family annihilators,” do NOT have financial problems. That RULES OUT “financial problems” as motive for “family annihilation.”
Today, you compound your IGNORANCE OF ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC by claiming that RAM paid Barabara Mixon “more than $278,000 over an eleven-year span — a staggering sum compared to what he paid other housekeepers who worked for the family (including the late Gloria Satterfield).”
Jenn, Jenn, Jenn! Let your “rocket scientist” husband confirm to you that $278,000 divided by 11 years is ONLY $25,272 PER YEAR, which is ONLY $2,160 PER MONTH or ONLY $445 or so PER WEEK.
Assuming Barbara Mixon worked a 40-hour week, that is ONLY $10 (ten dollars) per hour.
NOTHING “staggering” about that. Indeed, it is equal to, or less than, the $15 (fifteen dollars) per hour RAM was reportedly paying Gloria Satterfield.
ALSO, the blue jacket (NOT a “tarp”) did NOT belong to RAM but was several sizes too small for him.
Why do you do that, Jenn?
Are you stupid or do you think all your readers are?
Remember: you can’t fool all the people all the time. Not when the great Dr. Marie Faltas is still, thank God, among all the people anyway.
Again, please review my brilliant previous comments on the REAL time of death.
I want this story to trend again and with the added interest of my opposition to BOTH abortion (from fertilization, which is when life in its scientific and theological definitions starts) and guillotine-glorification misnamed “capital punishment,” I paste here my early meditations of today:
Because I am still moved by Barbara Mixson’s lasting love and courage to say (in her single[?] post-testimony interview I saw) that Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) “did not do it,” and because I hope David Pascoe becomes South Carolina’s next, but ANTI-death penalty, attorney general, I paste here, too, what I just did on Will Folks’ guillotine-glorifying article from last month:
I hope Pope Leo XIV, Vice President JD Vance, and Mrs, Kirk, make it fashionable (or at least acceptable) within MAGA to be Catholic.
And while we are at at, I hope Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II are not forgotten already.
I hope, too, that Usha Chilukuri makes it acceptable, even fashionable, within some circles who worship the Germanic beauty dreams of tall, blue-eyed, blond and big-breasted and big-footed (whether naturally or artificially), to be petite, natural-dark-haired with silver streaks of wisdom, with wise brown eyes un-weighted-down with artificial eyelashes and the allergenic glue it takes to apply them, AND frugal in fashion.
With that said, I know that Will Folks is not Catholic though I am unsure of which, if any, theology he brings his children up in. I know that Jenn Woods claims to be Catholic, and that, before the Citadel, David Pascoe went to a preparatory academy with a Catholic-sounding name.
Though I converted in later adulthood to Coptic Orthodoxy, my 100% childhood-into-early-adulthood Catholic education is indelible. And looking back at it, I marvel at how skilled the nuns were, in co-operation with the monks. in ingraining in us the JOYS of chastity, charity, and studiousness. The nuns took us to visit the sick and the poor while the monks taught us the basics of Catholic philosophy and that the purpose of life is to know God and to love Him.
The Coptic Orthodox phrasing of the purpose of life is to unite with God.
Since my conversion, the only thing I do differently is where and how I take Holy Communion where and when I can.
The Coptic Orthodox Church does not YET oppose the death penalty (how can it in majority-Moslem Egypt?) but the Catholic Church does and now requires the faithful to actively oppose it, too.
And come what may, I believe it hypocritical to oppose abortion without opposing the death penalty and/or to oppose the death penalty without opposing abortion.
So, insult me you self-anointed righteous right and lofty left all you want; but remember that God is love and God told us to choose life. Period. No age brackets.
So, today, remembering Revelation 3:20 English Standard Version
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”
and the Parable of the Sower Mark 4:1-20 New International Version
“1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
I hope, God willing and FITS permitting, to show the political candidates that literal guillotine-glorification is unsound, unscientific, and unconstitutional.
How would Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) or even Buster want the real killers (when, God willing, they are reaved) of Paul and Maggie to be punished? After all, those real killers did not only kill a loving and loved wife and a young man trying to right his drinking ways through real labor in a tractor store and at Moselle. Those real killers left or caused an innocent husband and father to be falsely convicted of those murders?
I wish RAM would want the real killers punished the same way I want punishment for Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) for her knowing that I was the VICTIM of harassment and even threats of rape by a PWID-crack dealer previously convicted by none other than Weiss herself. Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did not just ignore the photos of career criminal Corey/Cory Lamont Curry masturbating at me in MY parking lot. Hatchet-for-Hire Heather tried VEHEMENTLY and at public expense to incarcerate ME for taking the very photos which prove that Corey/Cory’s crimes against me. And Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did not just want incarcerate me for days or months; she wanted me (God forbade and my self-defense WITHOUT A LAWYER thwarted) incarcerated for 36 YEARS; yes THIRTY-SIX. And Hatchet-for-Hire Heather tenaciously did so through perjury and subornation of perjury, which in case you forgot or did not know in the first place, ARE crimes which at different times places WERE punished by the death penalty.
Yet, I do NOT want Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) incarcerated for even 36 minutes; nor do I want any harm done to her person or even her livelihood. I want her punishment to be that she be ORDERED to review EVERY incarcerated person in South Carolina’s case for defects in the conviction and the investigation preceding it. A conviction integrity unit, so to speak, which South Carolina (alone?) among the states still does not have.
And also because Jenn Wood has now updated her photo and the caption thereunder on this article and elsewhere on FITSNews, I want to rescue Jenn from three very dangerous and self-destructive ideas that FITS is promoting using her, specially after Will Folks’ TERRIFYING personal fantasies of extreme AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL sadism in applying the death penalty:
1. “Justice” means harshness;
2. Harshness reduces crime; and
3. Hypocritical judges who now pander to “lawyer legislators” who elect them will not pander to the governor who appoints them or to the public at large who elects them or to the donors who finance their campaigns, or to the U.S. Senator who employs them in his/her office then elevates them to the federal bench, or to any other form of judicial selection.
I’ll take the second point first: slow hanging in the public square with tickets sold to witness actual death as entertainment.
Where, in today’s world, do executions take place in the public square but without “tickets sold”? In case you have not guessed it, look it up.
Has the cutting of hands of thieves reduced thefts in those places? No.
Has the public beheading of adulterers reduced adultery in those places? No.
Has the public flogging of alleged blasphemers reduced internal doubts about religions which stifle such thoughts?
And let me ask those who claim to be Christian this: Has the public and cruel crucifixion of Jesus Christ stifle Christianity or cause it to spread?
Remember: Christianity was a crime in the “judgment” of the Pharisees and of the Roman Emperors.
But Simon, who witnesses Jesus Christ’s crucifixion from afar in Jerusalem, later became Saint Peter, who willingly gave himself to be crucified.
And Saul of Tarsus, who PARTICIPATED in the stoning of Saint Stephens later became Saint Paul, who was willing to be martyred for the same cause for which he had participated in the public stoning of Saint Stephens.
To the a-religious who still claim to be latter-day American patriots, I ask: Did the British’s literal “quartering” of captured revolutionaries defeat the American Revolution?
You will insult me by falsely claiming that I equate Christianity and/or the American Revolution with base child rapes or production of CSAM.
But you will be promoting the very hypocrisy I am trying to expose and reduce BECAUSE you know THAT IS NOT MY POINT.
My point is that public cruelty promotes private cruelty; and violence against (good or bad) ideas only promotes violence by those who espouse bad ideas and, for those espousing good ideas, willingness to be subjected to violence for the sake of good ideas.
You do NOT eliminate child rape or production/distribution of CSAM or drug use/distribution or even murder by public torturous executions.
You DO or CAN eliminate such evils by filling people’s hears with JOY from GOOD activities such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, sheltering the stranger, and visiting the prisoner.
You DO or CAN eliminate the DESIRE to look at CSAM by giving people great art to look at or great photos and videos of the wonders of nature to look at.
In Pharmacology, it is called “competitive inhibition.” In simple terms, it means a drug that binds to the receptor site of a different molecule prevents that molecule (good or bad) from acting. It does not break down that other molecule itself but prevents it from acting on the receptor by getting there first.
So, do not scare your children with public torturous hangings; get to them “first” by filling their time with learning, art, creativity, good sports, etc.
I shall, God willing and FITS permitting, get to points 1 and 3 later.