THE JUICE IS LOOSE.
Before we get to what OJ had to say. Here was the verdict in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial.
Alex Murdaugh, the fourth-generation lawyer whose family long exerted influence in small town South Carolina courtrooms, was convicted on Thursday of murdering his wife and son, sealing the dramatic downfall of a man who had substantial wealth and powerful connections but who lived a secret life in which he stole millions of dollars from clients and colleagues and lied to many of those closest to him.
The guilty verdict in Walterboro, S.C., followed a closely watched trial that lasted nearly six weeks, and it came more than 20 months after the June 2021 fatal shootings of Mr. Murdaugh’s wife, Maggie, 52, and their younger son, Paul, 22, near the dog kennels on the family’s rural estate. The grisly crime stunned the South Carolina Lowcountry in part because of the storied history of the Murdaugh family, which controlled a regional prosecutor’s office for more than 80 years and ran a law firm for even longer.
In finding Mr. Murdaugh guilty, jurors rejected his claim that he had left the crime scene minutes before the shootings, an assertion Mr. Murdaugh made from the witness stand only after prosecutors played a video contradicting his longstanding claim to have never been there at all. The crucial, minute-long video recorded at the kennels happened to capture Mr. Murdaugh’s voice in the background. It was taken by Paul Murdaugh in one of his last living moments in an act that inadvertently helped to secure the conviction of his father.
Murdaugh apparently had been embezzling money from the law firm and the wife and son was about to expose him. That is what the prosecution claimed was the motive.
OJ chimed in with his two cent on the trial via Twitter. OJ does have some experience with double murder trials. The Juice said Murdaugh was cooked when the jury saw him lying on the stand. Accordng to the Simpson, Sherriffs at the jal where he was being housed during his double murder trial told him they knew he was going free because the cops got caught in so many lies on the stand the jury wouldn’t be able to get over it.
Flip the page for OJ’s full thoughts. The quote tweets are in shambles.