Jury Views Alex Murdaugh's Interview From Night of the Murders — Transcript

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1. 0:00I mean I pulled up and I could see him
2. 0:02and you know I knew something was bad I
3. 0:05ran out I knew it was really bad
4. 0:09my boy over there I could see
5. 0:13it was
6. 0:26oh
7. 0:27[Music]
8. 0:30I'm so sorry
9. 0:32and I could see his brains
10. 0:38foreign
11. 0:52actually I think I tried to turn Paul
12. 0:54over first
13. 0:57um
14. 0:59you know I tried to turn him over and uh
15. 1:02I don't know I figured it out
16. 1:05um
17. 1:06his cell phone popped out of his pocket
18. 1:08that's
19. 1:09started to try to do something with it
20. 1:12thinking maybe but then I put it back
21. 1:15down really quickly
22. 1:17um then I went to my wife and uh
23. 1:21I mean I could see
24. 1:26[Music]
25. 1:30Maggie at all I did I touched them both
26. 1:32okay I tried to take I mean I tried to
27. 1:35do it as limited as possible but I I try
28. 1:38to take their pulse on both of them
29. 1:43is there anybody that you can think of
30. 1:46that we need to talk to tonight
31. 1:49is there a name that comes to mind
32. 1:51I mean I can't tell you anybody that I'm
33. 1:55overly suspicious of
34. 1:58off the top of my head okay you know
35. 2:01um I mean this is such a stupid thing
36. 2:04I'm even embarrassed to say it
37. 2:07but it just didn't
38. 2:09make any sense I just hired a guy out
39. 2:12here and
40. 2:16it really he wasn't cutting the mustard
41. 2:18but I hadn't told him this yet Paul's
42. 2:20been working with him a lot he killed
43. 2:22the sunflower seeds in our dove field
44. 2:24just recently which is why Paul was here
45. 2:26doing this he told Paul a story the
46. 2:29other day about how when he was in high
47. 2:32school he got in a fight with some black
48. 2:35guys
49. 2:36and FBI undercover team observed him
50. 2:40fighting those guys and put him on an
51. 2:44undercover team with three Navy Seals
52. 2:47and their job was to kill radical Black
53. 2:50Panthers and they did that from Myrtle
54. 2:52Beach to Savannah
55. 2:55now I really don't think this guy
56. 2:59you know
57. 3:01is probably the person but
58. 3:05that's just so freaking yeah that's kind
59. 3:08of far-fetched story weird but he was
60. 3:10off today okay he took his daddy to the
61. 3:13doctor
62. 3:15what's his name CB Rowe
63. 3:19have y'all been having any problems out
64. 3:21here
65. 3:21trespassers are breaking in none that I
66. 3:25know of the only thing
67. 3:27that what comes to my mind is my son
68. 3:30Paul was in a boat wreck
69. 3:32a couple years ago and there's been a
70. 3:37you know he was charged with being
71. 3:39arrested for being a driver there's been
72. 3:42a lot of negative publicity about that
73. 3:44and there's been a lot of people online
74. 3:47just really vile stuff but when Paul's
75. 3:51out and about I mean people routinely I
76. 3:55don't think I know the full story
77. 3:57um because I don't think they give it to
78. 4:00me but I mean he's been punched and hit
79. 4:03and just attacked a lot
80. 4:06all right still with me criminal defense
81. 4:08attorney former prosecutor Franz Bogart
82. 4:10and Franz you know first and foremost
83. 4:11he's an attorney
84. 4:14um it's always it always surprises me
85. 4:16but people in general but especially
86. 4:18attorneys don't follow the cardinal rule
87. 4:20and don't talk to police but I guess
88. 4:22under these circumstances
89. 4:24in in the situation that he is
90. 4:26presumably in
91. 4:28um I guess you can understand it
92. 4:31well you know
93. 4:33he didn't have much of a choice right so
94. 4:36if he would have said I don't want to
95. 4:37talk to you guys then he immediately
96. 4:40becomes a suspect right even though he
97. 4:42has the constitutional right to remain
98. 4:43silent and what we get is we get some
99. 4:47good nuggets for him which is the I
100. 4:49tried to touch them as little as
101. 4:50possible you heard him say that right
102. 4:52which may be something the defense uses
103. 4:55to address the blood on the clothes on
104. 4:57the other hand Michael what we get is it
105. 5:00was the radical black panthers in the
106. 5:03library with the candlestick holder that
107. 5:05may have done the murder which is so
108. 5:08ridiculous yeah that it's just like I
109. 5:11don't even know what to say now
110. 5:13here's the thing what would anybody
111. 5:16let's assume that he didn't do it for a
112. 5:18second what would be anybody in his
113. 5:20position if he really didn't do it and
114. 5:23he encountered what he encountered what
115. 5:24would be their demeanor what would be
116. 5:26the things they would say would would
117. 5:28they be saying ridiculous things
118. 5:30possibly
119. 5:32um I just don't know I don't know about
120. 5:33everything I'm seeing here I don't know
121. 5:36that this helps him as much as it hurts
122. 5:37him yeah no one knows what you say under
123. 5:40those circumstances that's part of the
124. 5:41problem we're going to sit here and pick
125. 5:43this thing apart we don't know what you
126. 5:45would say you don't know what's running
127. 5:46through your mind one of the things
128. 5:47obviously running through his mind is
129. 5:50that boat accident we heard it again it
130. 5:52was the first thing out of his mouth
131. 5:53when the First Responders came and it
132. 5:56took a while to get to it during this
133. 5:57particular interview but he goes to it
134. 5:59again and here's my question about that
135. 6:01that's the part that I think possibly
136. 6:03could be helpful to defense only because
137. 6:05they don't necessarily have to develop
138. 6:07that very much much but it's out there
139. 6:09and it's a good story and it gives them
140. 6:11inadvertently uh something to think
141. 6:14about when I say them I mean the jury
142. 6:15something to think about about the
143. 6:18possibilities of what else could have
144. 6:19happened here
145. 6:20so the best part of this for the defense
146. 6:23is this is their client testifying
147. 6:25without testifying right
148. 6:27um he doesn't have to get on the stand
149. 6:28although he might not be able to resist
150. 6:31Michael uh but he doesn't have to get on
151. 6:33the stand he's he's provided through his
152. 6:38his reasonable doubt that the jury might
153. 6:41be able to sink its teeth in if
154. 6:42developed by the defense so that is a
155. 6:45positive right the negative is the
156. 6:47negative is is the jury's going to watch
157. 6:50these videos and then watch his
158. 6:52courtroom demeanor and see if those two
159. 6:54emotional reactions align and if they
160. 6:57don't align he has a problem yeah and
161. 7:00and you know they're watching them
162. 7:01because we all are I mean it's it's the
163. 7:03natural reaction but you threw up a
164. 7:05softball I gotta knock it out to park
165. 7:06here you said he may not be able to
166. 7:09resist testify there's no way you think
167. 7:12he's testifying in this case
168. 7:14so remember we've talked about this in
169. 7:16the past Michael the only decision that
170. 7:18the client gets to make regardless of no
171. 7:20matter how much I'm begging and pleading
172. 7:22for them not to testify is they get the
173. 7:25right to take to stand against my advice
174. 7:27now sometimes sometimes in certain cases
175. 7:30we tell them hey you should testify I
176. 7:32think it's a good idea and we work on it
177. 7:34we work on it and work on it but some
178. 7:36clients Michael
179. 7:37especially clients that are lawyers they
180. 7:40just can't help themselves even in the
181. 7:42face of good advice from Council now
182. 7:45look he has a really good he's a really
183. 7:48good defense attorney who's doing some
184. 7:50good leg work right now so maybe it's
185. 7:52something that they've talked about and
186. 7:54he's convinced him not to do it he
187. 7:56doesn't need to do it I think there's
188. 7:57Reasonable Doubt here uh if the jury
189. 8:00wants to find it and I think he get up
190. 8:02gets on the stand he's only going to
191. 8:03hurt himself yeah I have to agree but I
192. 8:05go back to the the arraignment where he
193. 8:07gets up and says I'm gonna defend myself
194. 8:09in front of God and Country like you
195. 8:11said just the Persona of this guy
196. 8:12suggests there's there's a little nugget
197. 8:14there that he may want to get on the
198. 8:16stand and tell his