A state prosecutor on Friday accused disbarred South Carolina lawyer Richard 'Alex' Murdaugh of changing his story about his whereabouts on the night his wife and son were murdered only after the jury heard contradicting evidence.
"The second you’re confronted with facts you can’t deny, you immediately come up with a new lie. Isn’t that correct?" Waters asked Murdaugh, who disagreed with the prosecutor's characterization but acknowledged lying to clients and others.Murdaugh, the scion of an influential South Carolina legal family, was indicted by a grand jury in July on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon in connection with the fatal shootings.
On Friday, Murdaugh said he was taking more than 2,000 milligrams of oxycodone on some days in the months leading up to the murders, or more than 60 pills of 30 mg each. "Opiates gave me energy. Whatever I was doing it made it more interesting. It made me want to do it longer," Murdaugh said.
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