Alex Murdaugh and his defense team are set to call their final witnesses -- as the disgraced attorney’s murder trial pushes its way toward closing arguments.
Fresh off his contentious testimony, Alex Murdaugh and his defense team are set to call their final witnesses on Monday as the disgraced attorney’s murder trial pushes its way toward closing arguments. Defense attorney Dick Harpootlian said in court the defense expects to rest by the end of Monday, and the prosecution said it will have a few further rebuttal witnesses afterward, with the aim to move to closing arguments on Wednesday.
Murdaugh blamed his lies to police on “paranoid thinking” related to an opioid drug addiction. “I wasn’t thinking clearly,” he added. “I don’t think I was capable of reason, and I lied about being down there, and I’m so sorry that I did.” The decision to testify in his own defense was a risky but necessary one for Murdaugh, legal experts said.
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