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Judge rules to allow evidence of Alex Murdaugh's alleged financial crimes in double murder trial - CNN

Judge rules to allow evidence of Alex Murdaugh's alleged financial crimes in double murder trial - CNN

Judge rules to allow evidence of Alex Murdaugh's alleged financial crimes in double murder trial - CNN
Feb 06, 2023 1 min, 4 secs

The judge in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial on Monday ruled to allow the state to present evidence of the now-disbarred South Carolina attorney’s alleged financial crimes, which the prosecution contends were about to be revealed and provided him a motive to kill his wife and son.

“In this case, since the identity of the perpetrator is a critical element that must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, evidence of motive may be used in an attempt to meet that burden,” he said, adding the evidence was “so intimately connected” with the explanation of the state’s theory of the case “that proof of it is essential to complete the story.”

Tinsley disagreed: “That’s the Judgment Day … and there were a lot of threads that were being pulled and it was subject to unraveling at any moment.”

Murdaugh then went into the room with his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s, sat on the bed, looked at his phone and left about 20 minutes later, Smith testified.

Additionally, Smith conceded she did not mention the blue, tarp-like item in her interview with state investigators, on June 16, 2021.

It wasn’t until she had been in a car accident in September that she mentioned the tarp to a police officer working the wreck.

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