Watch Live: Closing underway in trial of Alex Murdaugh, South Carolina attorney accused in double murder

Closing arguments within the trial of disgraced former lawyer Alex Murdaugh started Wednesday, marking the near-final part of a trial that has stretched on for weeks.

Murdaugh, who’s a part of a outstanding native household within the South Carolina Lowcountry, is accused of killing his spouse, Maggie, and youthful son, Paul, at their dwelling on June 7, 2021. Jurors visited the Colleton County dwelling, referred to as Moselle, on Wednesday morning in response to a request from the protection granted by Decide Clifton Newman. 

Jurors got half-hour to view the property, specifically to see the place the our bodies of 52-year-old Maggie and 22-year-old Paul had been discovered on the kennels and shed. They weren’t anticipated to go inside the primary home, about 1,000 ft away, the place Murdaugh mentioned he was on the approximate time of the murders. Prosecutors say if that had been the case, he ought to have been capable of hear the rifle or shotgun blasts.

Prosecutors opposed the go to, saying the property has modified considerably within the 20 months for the reason that evening of the murders, together with bushes planted between the Murdaugh dwelling and the kennels which have grown taller and thicker.

The go to got here after the prosecution completed calling its rebuttal witnesses Tuesday, after the protection rested its case Monday.

Murdaugh, who admitted on the stand he struggled with an dependancy to capsules, can also be accused of stealing hundreds of thousands and faces greater than 100 different costs for alleged monetary and different crimes. He was disbarred final yr for what the state Supreme Courtroom referred to as “admitted reprehensible conduct.”