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Murdaugh Verdict Reversals Reignite Debate Over Jury Tampering Charges
Following the reversal of Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, scrutiny is intensifying over why Becky Hill was never charged with jury tampering.
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For the same reason Cousin Eddie Smith has not yet been, and might never be, prosecuted.
For an outlet which prides itself on its political acumen, you are either naive or playing dumb.
For the same reason Cousin Eddie Smith has not yet been, and might never be, prosecuted.
For an outlet which prides itself on its political acumen, you are either naive or playing dumb.
I wonder if Hill’s guilty plea was in exchange for having the jury tampering charges dropped. If so, the AG’s hands are going to be tied from going back to charge her anew. On the other hand, charging her then would have been an admission by the prosecution that they believed jury tampering occurred, and thus would have made Murdaugh’s motion for a new trial all but assured.
Congaree Cattfish Top Fan allow me to post this comment here though not really responsive to your comment:
So, Creighton Waters now vindictively brandishes the death penalty?
He’s in over his head.
Now that the Catholic Church has declared its opposition to the death penalty to be a core belief, Prancing Creighton Waters (“PCW”) cannot exclude jurors opposed to the death penalty if they are Catholic.
Instead of itching to execute the innocent, Alan Wilson should show some zeal in improving murder investigations.
To expiate for his Frankenstein creation, FITS should do a whole show or a whole story on the scientific failures of the investigation into Paul and Maggie’s shootings.
Here is more about ballistics which is augmented by this (link to video deleted for publishability).
It shows SLED, presumably in the early morning of 8 June 2021, supposedly collecting evidence from around and inside the house at Moselle.
Many mistakes appear in that short clip:
1. The spent bullets collected from around the exterior seven-step stoop are BASICALLY rubbed together by the evidence gatherer thus HOPELESSLY contaminating the subsequent tool-mark microscopic examination and analysis if such analysis were a science to begin with.
2. The evidence gatherers arrived without simple plastic or paper bags in which to put each bullet separately with an identification of the precise location it was found.
3. They then resort to a quick and dirty non-solution of putting a bullet in each finger of a “new glove” again without precise location identification and after the bullets had scarred each other from being basically rubbed together.
4. The exterior door handle is not dusted for fingerprints nor swabbed for DNA.
5. Once inside the house, no effort or attention is paid to any food or drink containers with residue or unconsumed content. That should be basic in any murder investigation even where the victims had been visibly shot: had they been poisoned or attempted to be poisoned before the shootings? Were they under the influence of anything they had consumed before being confronted by their shooter(s)? That may not necessarily have been the case here; but these are basics of any investigation started on a blank slate.
6. They are heard commenting to each other that the autopsies already started. They should have carefully looked for evidence of unconsummated or recently-consummated food and drink to supply to the autopsy performer.
Or course, many more mistakes appear even in that short clip.
Now that the Sixth Amendment right to a fair and impartial jury has been vindicated, it is essential to vindicate the DUE PROCESS right to a scientifically-sound investigation before charges are even brought against anyone.
Of course, many more mistakes appear even in that short clip.
Now that the Sixth Amendment right to a fair and impartial jury has been vindicated, it is essential to vindicate the DUE PROCESS right to a scientifically-sound investigation before charges are even brought against anyone.
FITS, this is all getting out of hand; and you want to consider this solution of mine:
Alex Murdaugh’s ONLY hope of DESERVED exoneration is through a bench re-trial.
There is ONE retired/active SC state circuit judge and ONE active SC state circuit judge with the intellect to cut through ALL the Prosecution’s nonsense and THE COURAGE to find Alex not guilty.
Judging by the insane comments which insist that Becky Hill was bribed by Alex to make the jury find him guilty, Alan Wilson has already won the prejudicial pre-re-trial publicity case, which is really and REALISTICALLY where cases are won or lost in this day and age.
They will NEVER find truly impartial jurors.
They will find PLENTY of jurors who fancy themselves impartial; and there is no magical way to tease self-delusion from reality.
There are SCIENTIFIC ways to do so; but they have not penetrated the law which built a wall of magic around itself and thinks some lawyers/judges can sit in a room and come out with WORDY rules which answer all the world’s questions.
And all lawyers and judges like that wall of magic around themselves, because without it, what do they actually have? Words! Only words that someone else, cloaked with a wall of magic built around themselves, wrote in prior appellate opinions and/or rules of “evidence.”
Don’t let the man Alex suffer one more year! Agree to a bench trial before a judge who would have to take a new, made-for-the-occasion oath to find Alex NOT Guilty if so led by the evidence.
I will not give the names of the two judges who are the exception which proves the rule. They know who they are; and Kittredge knows them, too. If only the sides would agree to a bench re-trial and Kittredge would have the courage and wisdom to select the right judge, this turmoil should be over and avoided.
FITS, this is all getting out of hand; and you want to consider this solution of mine:
Alex Murdaugh’s ONLY hope of DESERVED exoneration is through a bench re-trial.
There is ONE retired/active SC state circuit judge and ONE active SC state circuit judge with the intellect to cut through ALL the Prosecution’s nonsense and THE COURAGE to find Alex not guilty.
Judging by the insane comments which insist that Becky Hill was bribed by Alex to make the jury find him guilty, Alan Wilson has already won the prejudicial pre-re-trial publicity case, which is really and REALISTICALLY where cases are won or lost in this day and age.
They will NEVER find truly impartial jurors.
They will find PLENTY of jurors who fancy themselves impartial; and there is no magical way to tease self-delusion from reality.
There are SCIENTIFIC ways to do so; but they have not penetrated the law which built a wall of magic around itself and thinks some lawyers/judges can sit in a room and come out with WORDY rules which answer all the world’s questions.
And all lawyers and judges like that wall of magic around themselves, because without it, what do they actually have? Words! Only words that someone else, cloaked with a wall of magic built around themselves, wrote in prior appellate opinions and/or rules of “evidence.”
Don’t let the man Alex suffer one more year! Agree to a bench trial before a judge who would have to take a new, made-for-the-occasion oath to find Alex NOT Guilty if so led by the evidence.
I will not give the names of the two judges who are the exception which proves the rule. They know who they are; and Kittredge knows them, too. If only the sides would agree to a bench re-trial and Kittredge would have the courage and wisdom to select the right judge, this turmoil should be over and avoided.