South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson pointed the 12-gauge gun at the back of his last witness to try to prove the defense’s theory was “preposterous.”
South Carolina’s top prosecutor dramatically pointed a shotgun at the back of a crime-scene expert’s head will dismissing a “preposterous” defense against Alex Murdaugh murdering his wife and son.due to start Wednesday.Paul, 22, to blow his brains out.Kinsey then stood outside the courtroom door to demonstrate the defense’s theory on how Paul and his mom Maggie, 52, were killed in dog kennels at one of their estates in June 2021.
“The shooter’s coming in the door — he shoots Paul in the back of the head after he passes him,” Kinsey said, seemingly struggling to contain a chuckle at the defense theory as the two men squeezed through the courtroom door. “You would see a pattern [of spatter and blowback] on the floor just like you see in the photographs of the top of that door. None of that’s there.”
Judge Clifton Newman said he expected the jury would be back in court for closing arguments around 11 a.m. ET.
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