NEW: After three weeks, 61 witnesses, and hundreds of pieces of evidence, prosecutors rested their case against Alex Murdaugh. But several legal experts say that despite the mountain of evidence, the pathway toward a conviction still may not be so easy.
But several legal experts told The Daily Beast that despite the mountain of evidence, the pathway toward a conviction still may not be so easy. The main reason, experts say, is the prosecution’s lack of hard evidence that directly ties Murdaugh to the crime scene and the lack of explanation about why the 54-year-old would want to murder his family when several witnesses have said they were his number one priority.
“The trial has been meandering along at a very slow pace,” Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor not involved in the case, told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “The prosecution has focused so much on ancillary financial crimes that it’s hard at times to follow between that and the evidence of the murders.”
“This testimony, which prosecutors usually bury in the middle of the trial, is often necessary to lay a predicate to admit evidence, but it can really put jurors to sleep,” Johnson said. But prosecutors showed jurors a video Paul filmed at the dog kennels for a friend five minutes before he was murdered that seemed to discredit Murdaugh’s alibi. In the video, while Paul is trying to take his friend’s dog, several witnesses testified they could hear Murdaugh and Maggie speaking in the background.
“[Marian] was the best prosecution witness so far because she was believable, likable, and testified that Murdaugh’s behavior wasn’t consistent with a grieving husband and father,” Rahmani said.
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