Alex Murdaugh trial reside: Choose guidelines roadside capturing testimony inadmissible in blow to prosecution

In an particularly notable second, Mr Owen says to Murdaugh: “We’ve already established that household weapons had been used. And in the event that they got here from Paul’s truck, Paul’s truck was on the home. So the place had been they?”

Murdaugh doesn’t push again at household weapons getting used, as a substitute asking: “And the way did they get down there?”

Mr Owen echoes the query.

Murdaugh says he wish to know precisely what occurred.

Mr Owen says he believes Paul was shot first.

Murdaugh says he thought Maggie was shot first as she was hit at the back of the top.

Mr Owen says: “We might truthfully by no means know who was first. However I feel that it was Paul for the easy incontrovertible fact that if he noticed his mom getting shot, he wouldn’t have run to that feed room.”

Murdaugh is requested why he informed the 911 dispatcher he hadn’t seen Maggie and Paul in an hour and a half to 2 hours.

He asks if Mr Owen thinks he’s being inconsistent.

Mr Owen says he’s making an attempt to straighten out the timeline. He additionally queries what time Murdaugh left his workplace that evening. That — as with most of the different solutions — is inconsistent with proof collected by SLED, a lot of which we now have heard.

Mr Owen’s questioning jumps round.

He asks if Paul ever acquired bodily with him. He concedes one time when he had an excessive amount of to drink and that he didn’t get bodily again.

Murdaugh can also be requested what he supposed to do with Paul’s cellphone when it popped out of his again pocket. He stated he had picked it up and put it down.

He says he can’t recall.

Murdaugh says that they had dinner for 15-20 minutes.

He says that whereas he didn’t see any rifles or lengthy weapons on the homicide scene, Paul at all times had weapons round in every single place of each kind.

Mr Owen tells Murdaugh he’s heard on the 911 tape saying: “I ought to have recognized.”

He asks what he meant by that.

“I don’t bear in mind saying that. However I suppose the entire threats. I had been satisfied that it was one thing to do with the boat wreck and all of that.”

Murdaugh is requested how he hundreds his shotguns and is not sure find out how to reply.

Mr Owen asks what sort of ammo he makes use of, to which he replies that he makes use of all types.

Pushed as as to whether he makes use of birdshot and buckshot on the similar time, he says “not usually”.

Mr Owen says there was consistency between how a number of weapons had been loaded in that means together with the one he had with him with police arrived.

“That evening I grabbed the shells I may get my fingers on,” he says.

In additional questions on ammunition, he’s informed that 300 Blackout cartridges had been discovered everywhere in the property and had been confirmed matches to those discovered by Maggie.

Murdaugh is requested whether or not the canines had been working free when he returned house that evening.

Within the video, we all know that a minimum of one of many canines was out as a result of it caught a hen as we will hear Maggie exclaiming.

On the 911 name, Murdaugh at one level says “right here” as if he’s calling a canine that’s working round.

When requested in regards to the video that Paul filmed of the canine he’s informed that Rogan recognized his voice. Murdaugh maintains that he was not on the kennels that evening when the video was filmed.

Murdaugh is requested in regards to the canine with an injured tail (Money) that Paul was taking care of for his pal.

He says that he had a dialog with Rogan in regards to the canine, not Paul.

Murdaugh says Maggie might have walked all the way down to the kennel that evening, however it might have been extremely unlikely Paul would have.

He says he hoped that SLED would be capable of inform him how they acquired all the way down to the kennels.

Murdaugh is then requested how lengthy he stayed at his mom’s home.

He claims he was there for 45 minutes to an hour.

We all know from Shelley Smith, his mom’s carer, and the information extracted from his automotive that he was there for 21 minutes.