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Originally Posted by Carla B
I haven't watched any of the trial and haven't seen any of the TV shows pertaining to Alex Murdaugh. But I did read this thread and became interested in the case. Something must have changed with the prosecution or maybe Alex Murdaugh's own defense, to result in such a quick guilty verdict. Any thoughts on this? By the way, La Lamy was right on in saying she thought he would be found guilty.
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Interestingly the judge in a statement from the bench attacked our two tier system of charging and justice. He said that given the crimes of which Murdaugh was accused he felt that those charges under the state laws should have been brought with a death penalty specification. He suggested that the privilege of whiteness and dollars played a role in that not being on the table.
He pointed out that Murdaugh's family as prosecutors in those courts had invoked the death penalty in cases less heinous than this case. Murdaugh's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather held the office of head prosecutor in that county for 86 years.