Week in Review: Redistricting, Clemson, Murdaugh 2.0

And here is my reply to a rare polite and open-minded commenter on Jen Wood’s interview with Phil Barber:
@DayandBayNana08 , I will only answer 3 and 5 for you because there is OBJECTIVE evidence to give you.
Blanca testified that Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) wore long kaki pants and a blue shirt under some sport coat when he left for work around noon on 7 June 2021.
We know FOR SURE that each of RAM and Paul returned to Moselle from their different work locations around 7:00 pm and rode together around Moselle for an hour or so.
Paul made a video of himself laughing at his father standing before a sapling he had planted but failed to support; so that sapling was falling. RAM is wearing a blue shirt and long kaki pants in that sapling video.
Also, Blanca testified that she found long kaki pants on the floor of the bathroom the morning of 8 June 2021 and laundered them.
Problem of RAM’s day outfit solved.
The next outfit in which we see RAM on video consists of a white T-shirt and green shorts. He wore them to Almeda, according to RAM’s mother’s night caregiver. We see them on the bodycams of the officers who responded to RAM’s 911 call upon his return from Almeda. RAM gave the T-shirt and shorts to those officers who gave them to SLED who analyzed them and testified about them at trial.
Problem of RAM’s night outfit solved.
I do not know what is missing unless someone has evidence of a missing outfit in between.
As to your question (5), the clothes Maggie wore to the kennels went with her body to the autopsy which, according to the officers searching the Moselle house started THAT NIGHT or early the next morning.
What Blanca SAYS she saw on the floor the next morning are some CLEAN pajamas and underwear of Maggie’s PROBABLY laid there by some of the Murdaugh family members and some of the lawyers’ wives who HURRIEDLY descended on Moselle after they heard the news and thought they might spend the night there to comfort and protect RAM. Except that RAM, Buster, and Brooklyn (Buster’s then girlfriend, now wife and mother of RAM’s first grandchild, also called RAM) could not stand to spend the night at Moselle and went to Almeda.
I cannot help you with the cleaners because I do not believe there were any cleaners other than the REAL shooters who lay in waiting until RAM left for Almeda at 9:07 pm. I believe the real shooters went armed with previously-stolen family guns to scare some confession and/or some settlement out of Paul and Maggie; and when things got out of hand, they shot them very unprofessionally.
You asked politely and this is a civil response SUPPORTED BY THE ACTUAL TESTIMONY AT TRIAL; and I hope you take it in that spirit.

I’ve kept silent during the Chow trial mainly because I am a committed pacifist who believes in gun control.
Before MAGA hates on me more, remember I believe life begins at fertilization and that same-gender lifestyle is a choice, not inborn.
Before the faux liberals hate on me more, remember I am unexceptionally opposed to the death penalty and I now alert defense lawyers, who have much to learn from me, that they now have the right to put an anti-death penalty on the jury if that juror is Catholic.
Or okay; everybody hate on me more. I know God loves me and that is what matters to me.
Long introduction because what I have to say will shock all.
I am disillusioned in Byron Gibson, though I defended him against impeachment.
It turns out he is not anti-racist; he is just a xenophobe who happens to be black. He called a Chinese IT professor with a lawful concealed weapon “a gun carrying thug.”
And I am also a law purist. That white Creighton-Waters-channeling prosecutor with Sharpie marks on his white shirt is a Z-list theater producer, not a a lawyer. NOTHING he said in closing, from his being a child of divorced parents to his first prom date was in evidence; and lawyers should not testify in asking questions or in opening or closing arguments. But no one objected, probably because they wanted to leave some ineffective-assistance of counsel points in case of a conviction.
The important thing I want to say is that the idea that, if the Chows had not followed Cyrus Carmack-Belton out of that store, he would have lived to be a grandfather dispensing wisdom to his grandchildren is STATISTICALLY false.
Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword, said Jesus Christ.
Had Chow the father not shot Cyrus dead, some competing gang member would have at some point.
Where did Cyrus get that gun to begin with?
He ran because he was afraid for the gun; and not only or mainly for the penalty of unlawful gun carrying, but for what the owner of that gun would have done to Cyrus had that gun been seized and confiscated, or worse yet, traced to links in the chain that ended in Cyrus’ pants under his red hoodie.
Parents, oh parents! Illegal gun at 14 is NOT a tick your child will outgrow and laugh about decades later.
That gun might even kill you by mistake or kill your child by suicide.
And before you accuse me of racism, I had written in opposition to the sexting extortion law pushed by a white Freedom Caucus member whose son shot himself. I challenged that father on where his teen-age son got the gun with which he suicided.
“Don’t want your children to shoot themselves if sex-torted? Don’t give them guns. It’s that simple.” I wrote then.
So, Cyrus’ family should look inward instead of wrongful-death-suing outward.
Cyrus’ life would matter, not if you got some money in return for it, but if you caused other parents to stop giving guns to their children or to be vigilant about their children having guns.
I also need to note the extreme pro-prosecution bent of Judge Heath Taylor or whoever denied Mr. Chow bond for three years.
Judges who respect the Eighth Amendments ban on excessive bail and on cruel and unusual punishment get branded “a let-them-loose Bruce” and eaten alive.
The testimony about the prevalence of 14-year-olds carrying guns around Columbia “for coolness and protection” is really frightening.
Black lives DO matter. Don’t squander them by letting 14-year-olds have guns.
An BTW, no 911 dispatcher would have responded to a merchant reporting that a kid may have left with a bottle of water without paying the dollar for it. I had a whole vintage truck stolen from my land in broad daylight; and the City of Columbia, one Sergeant Moody, did not even bother canvassing the cameras in the surrounding buildings.