Observers say Murdaugh did himself no favors by taking the witness stand.
Observers say Murdaugh did himself no favors by taking the witness stand, where he admitted to stealing money from clients and lying to investigators about being at the kennels with his wife, Maggie, and son Paul shortly before their killings. His testimony opened him up to intense grilling by prosecutors.
“He was walking through a field of land mines between having to acknowledge his lies about his whereabouts the night of the murder and all of the money he stole from his clients,” said Duncan Levin, a defense attorney and former New York prosecutor. “The range of his bad acts was just so large that he got destroyed on cross-examination and I don’t think juries take well to being lied to their faces.
“The defendant clearly had so many relationships with law enforcement and really tried to take advantage of that,” Roth said. “So I think the claim that he did not trust law enforcement … just didn’t ring true to the jury.”
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