“I believe that to allow this evidence in is a bridge too far,” the judge said in a win for Alex Murdaugh’s defense team.
that Paul allegedly caused two years prior. But Proctor said she found it strange that Alex did not appear to be afraid that he would be targeted next.
“What specifically changed your perception of the roadside shooting after your initial concern?” lead prosecutor Creighton Waters asked her. In arguing that evidence about the roadside shooting should be permitted, Waters told the judge in a hearing on Tuesday without the jury present that it was relevant to their suggestion that Alex had killed his wife and son — ostensibly aware that people would suspect the murders would be linked to the boat crash — in order to divert attention from his financial misdeeds that were close to being discovered. There was a “symmetry” between the two events, Waters argued.
Alex had not intended to survive the scheme, Harpootilian said, and only lived because the bullet flew 1 millimeter too far to the left. As a suicide plot, it thus differed greatly from the prosecution’s suggestion that Alex comes up with violent schemes in order to divert attention from himself, Harpootlian said.
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