Contempt Hearing Set for Murdaugh Podcaster

I put this comment on the other recent Murdaugh story of yours:
Your “sources” are toying with you, FITS, although I continue to say it is highly improper for South Carolina’s supreme court to have have among its staff persons who talk to the press on background.
But then again, most of what South Carolina’s supreme court itself is highly improper, including its playing with money.
A lot of money which no ones dares question or audit.
Where do the filing fees and fines go?
No one knows or dares to audit.
Yes, sadly, South Carolina’s Constitution names the state’s chief justice as the administrative head of the state’s courts and allows him/her to appoint a director of court administration to assist him/her in administrating the courts.
But what does that mean?
What could that mean in a republican (lower case r) form of government which the federal constitution guarantees each state?
It certainly cannot mean the mess in South Carolina.
Where does the money from filing fees and fine go? And who dares audit them?
The Chief Justice of the Unites States does appoint the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court and the director of the administrative of the U.S. courts. But neither serves at the pleasure of the Chief Justice of the United States.
In fact, no one other than his law clerks serves at the pleasure of the Chief Justice of the United States.
The Chief Justice of the United States cannot even fire his own secretary at will. That person is a civil servant with civil tenure.
Not so in South Carolina.
Judicial reform cannot start and end, as FITS proposes, with a magical governor appointing magical judges who will impose draconian sentences which will magically make crime disappear.
It should begin with limiting the administrative powers of South Carolina’s chief justice to the absolute minimum necessary and increasing transparency AND strengthening recusal laws with penalties of impeachment of jurists who sit on cases in which they have a conflict of interest.
Transparency, FITS, means naming your sources within South Carolina’s supreme court.
But of course, you will never do that, not out of journalistic integrity, but because you have little left to peddle.
And so will Lawyer Laurie who is all wet now that the work week is over and no Murdaugh opinion.
BTW, South Carolina’s advance sheets do not necessarily come out “every” Wednesday. On many Wednesdays they do not come out because there were insufficient published opinions to fill them.
And since I will be branded arrogant and insulted anyway, let me air a peeve of mine.
Alex Murdaugh did not have a “double” murder trial; he had a two-murder trial.
You cannot “double” murder anyone since the definition of murder is taking a human life. If you do that, you cannot go back and “double” up on your work because the life would have already gone out of them. You can double or triple shoot someone but you cannot double murder them.
When will you people learn to write good English?
When will you people learn that “literally” is not a superlative of “very.”
And will you people learn that a 360-dgree turn is not a turn at all but leaves in the exact direction you started.
A 360-degree turn is not a superlative of a 180-degree turn.
But why should I have hoped that people who do not know the basics of English would know the basics of geometry?
BTW, if you’re guilty, just confess it.
If you’re innocent, represent yourself.
In either case you will get better results for yourself than these lawyers who pretend to have inside tracks will get for you.
And another BTW, April Sampson’s daughter, previously arrested for attempted murder and discharging a firearm into a building, among ten felonies stemming from the same incident, got “sentenced” to one day time served for “disturbing the peace” and the rest of her youthful offender sentence suspended on one year’s probation.
The problem? Lela Gabrielle Sampson is already a defendant for marijuana possession. Does that not fail her probation before it starts?
Why are you, FITS, not on the case of the judge who issued that sentence? Or on the case of the solicitor who recommended it and dropped all other felonies?
I am not a fan of Byron Gipson; but I think the push to impeach him ignores what other solicitors are doing. All of them!

Be careful with this is a long but NECESSARY and UNIQUE comment.
After all, I was THE FIRST to comment that Becky Hill’s book should cause Alex Murdaugh to seek a new trial.
And I am the first, but God forbid the last, one to see the Malicious Mandy Matney’s (“MMM”) book proves SHE, from a weird “vacation” spot, orchestrated the demise of Paul and Maggie by remote control.
Then, along with Becky Hill, MMM was indispensable in selling the crazy motive theory and the crazy theory that people die when the battery on their cell phone does.
The key to everything is: when EXACTLY did the shootings occur?
A penny of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Those who pinch the penny of prevention want to cash in on the pound of cure.
That goes for the penny to properly train law enforcement and crime scene investigators compared to the pound of high-salaried prosecutors and defense attorneys and prosecutors-turned-defense-attorneys all in a case bound to ultimately fail due to investigatory failures from the start.
Ever heard the expression “like a chicken with its head cut off”? It means furiously flapping around.
Ever heard the expression “a stick-to-your-ribs mean”? It means fatty meals are emptied from the stomach much later than light ones.
Now, you might say human observation is that one has a bowel movement almost immediately after a large and fatty meal.
True; but that movement is NOT the meal you just ate. It is the prior meal(s) that got SLOWLY moved down the digestive tact, broken down, and absorbed with ONLY the indigestible residue passing down to the terminal part of the digestive tract and waiting there.
Waiting there for what?
For one of both of two things: enough volume to open the anal sphincter and/or signals from the very upper digestive tract that “more food is coming so you, distal colon and anus, better get empty and ready for it because you do not know how much it will be.”
How do the terminal colon and anus get those signals? The reflexes of the autonomic nervous system.
They start with the dento-colonic reflex. You are more likely to have a bowel movement after brushing your teeth in the morning.
Next is the gastro-colonic reflex. Even babies have bowel movements right after every feed. If that were the milk they just received, they would starve to death. Instead, it is the residue of the milk from the prior feeds.
The reflexes go the other way, too.
Adults and babies feel hungrier after a bowel movement because the terminal colon tells the stomach “I’m good and empty and ready for the residue of the next meal to come down my way.”
That is why babies have more bowel movements a day because they need more feeds a day at the stage of fastest growth. As the growth curve slows, the number of bowel movements decreases until one bowel movement a day becomes the norm for adults.
These are, of course, the physiological, not pathological, sequences.
What does this have to do with Paul and Maggie?
We know FOR SURE that their last meal started after 8:00 pm on 7 June 2021 and ended at 8:30 pm that day.
We also know with relative certainty what they had eaten because Blanca testified what she had cooked and left on the stove for them.
It would have been MANDATORY for properly-trained first investigators on the scene to collect that/those pots left on the stove and precisely measured how much, if any, food was left and precisely subtracted that from the total capacity of the pot(s) left on the stove and the dirty dishes, if any, around.
Of course, with three people sharing the same dinner from the same pot(s), it would have been an educated guess to apportion how much each of the three ate and drank.
But the bottom line is the Prosecution’s FALSE time of death at 8:49 or 8:52 pm, is ONLY 19 to 22 minutes after the last meal. THAT SOON after the last meal, the stomach contents should look almost exactly as they looked on the dinner plates.
THEY DID NOT.
They were too digested into “tan material” for the pathologist to tell exactly what they were and she “did not see any corn or beans or anything like that.” That pretty much rules out death 19 to 22 minutes after the last meal.
And it puts the most likely time of death around 9:30 pm.
Why did Maggie’s phone have some activity around 8:52 pm but not thereafter? EASY! She had laid it on the side-by-side or somewhere to have both hands free to handle the dogs; and one member of the shooting cabal got hold of it to prevent her from using it to record the events or to summon help. Once they realized someone was calling Maggie, they had to discard it far away to prevent her from reaching for it but not too far away for that member to return to the shooting cabal.
And the Defense team fell into the Prosecution’s trap and spent a lot of money proving that Alex would not have heard the shots fired at the kennels when he was at the house for some acoustic reason or another.
The real reason Alex could not hear the shots is that they were fired by the real shooter(s) AFTER Alex had left for Almeda. And, no, he would not have seen, much less suspected a pedestrian disposing of Maggie’s phone on the side of the road.
All that stuff about the phone lighting or not lighting when thrown assumes it was thrown from a moving car.
It need not have been. It could have been placed by a pedestrian.
Tell me, if you can, where I am wrong.