Alex Murdaugh Intense Pretrial Hearing

A pretrial hearing today featured heated exchanges between #AlexMurdaugh's defense team and the prosecution related to evidence in the case.

Murdaugh, a former South Carolina attorney, is accused of killing his wife and son.

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[kimward]

It's the wonderful judge who told Nathaniel Rowland's mom to shut up about his innocence. Love this guy.

[leowen]

Harpootlian gets so upset when waters interrupts him once and the he interrupted waters several times, Harpootlian is a bully thinks he owns any courtroom

[MelissaBartoli]

If he didn't murder them why aren't the other family members searching for the real killer ? Does Buster really think his father didn't kill his mother and brother ?

[DDee-oikn]

I can't imagine what a miserable human being this man is - killing nearly his entire family, stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

[justlooking]

Life in prison. And (10) minutes alone with Mallory Beach's family. 🤬

[sherireedy]

Whew!! This is going to be an extremely intense trial!

[kdfulton]

The Judge better be careful, Harputlean (sic) is looking to hijack this trial. He’s a slick one and plays really dirty. He’s up to his old tricks here, already; yelling about nothing trying to make it into something.

[bbrcummins]

And Poot wonders why people don't like him .

[christianbyrd]

Dang, Mr. Defense Attorney has some serious anger issues!!!!

[Leann]

The defense will lose this case just because we don’t like him already. He’ll anger the jury.

[karenawagner]

Just looking at this Murdaugh guy I don't trust him one little bit.I could never be on a jury for this guy.I already have my mind made up.

[elizabethvlach]

Mr. Waters is truly a gifted attorney! I’m speechless just listening to him!

[Rachell_H]

Alex is evil and selfish in his ways. He is supposed to be upstanding citizen and should've behaved that way. Killing his family is pure evil. I don't know how any human could defend him in any way. He is guilty. I believe.

[christinerobinson]

The defense attorney is a piece of work. Alex had better not get off because his family has such influence. The judge doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about. He doesn’t seem to be in control of the court. He seems better than the judge in the Vallow/day belle trial, though. I like the prosecutor. He seemed to get on top of it after a few minutes.

[christinetaylor]

Boy has Murdaugh’s appearance changed since being in jail.

[Thequietone]

Omg. Do you mean his lawyer wants to play by the rules now

[CourtJesterJorge]

That 10-min monologue starting at 9:20 …. The court reporter deserves a raise!

[carolfisher]

This is weird but in the court room on the wall is that a picture of the Murdaugh Dad or Grandpa?

[ciao]

Wait! Isn’t this the judge from the Uber killer case?! He’s a great judge!

[dizzolve]

SO after all that Watters was right. Just issue the protective order, and he'll hand over the remaining discovery. Harputlian just wanted HIS argument heard first ( it seemed). Was that ego or was that some kind of legal importance or strategy?